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Oakland is an excellent example of a Victorian-style cemetery, and reflects the "garden cemetery" movement started and exemplified by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts. The original 6 acres (24,000 m 2 ) of Oakland remains one of the oldest historical plots of land in Atlanta, most of the rest of the city having been burned in 1864.
This page categorizes burials at Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta). Pages in category "Burials at Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta)" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.
April 28, 1976. The Confederate Obelisk is a large Confederate monument located in the Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The structure, a tall obelisk located in the cemetery's Confederate section, was dedicated in 1874. Due to its connection to the Confederate States of America, the monument has been vandalized repeatedly.
Evans died in Atlanta on July 2, 1911: his body lay in state in the central rotunda of the capitol building while the state legislature adjourned for a day to attend his funeral. He was buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery, just a few feet away from the grave of John Gordon. Evans County, Georgia (established November 3, 1914) is named after him.
Atlanta Campaign. Carolinas Campaign. Alfred Iverson Jr. (February 14, 1829 – March 31, 1911) was a lawyer, an officer in the Mexican–American War, a U.S. Army cavalry officer, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served in the 1862–63 campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia as a regimental and later brigade commander.
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Osborne Augustus Lochrane was born in Midleton, Ireland on August 22, 1829. He immigrated to the United States, settling in Athens, Georgia at age 18. He read law, and was admitted to the bar in February 1850. He practiced as a lawyer in Macon and served as a circuit judge before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia.