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The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.The most significant frontal assault launched by Union Major General William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston, it produced a tactical defeat for the Union forces but failed to deliver the result that the Confederacy desperately ...
Some the dead were mutilated and set on fire. 156–173 (including warriors) [298] 1874: August 24: Lone Tree Massacre: Kansas: Surveyors under Captain Oliver Francis Short were ambushed by a group of 25 Cheyenne, near the lone Cottonwood tree by the Crooked Creek, near present day Meade Kansas. 7 [299] 1875: April: Sappa Creek Massacre: Kansas
This site is the center piece of the University of Kentucky's Adena Park and is located on a bank 75 feet (23 m) above Elkhorn Creek.It features a causewayed ring ditch with a circular 105-foot (32 m) diameter platform, surrounded by a 45-foot (14 m) wide ditch and a 13-foot (4.0 m) wide enclosure with a 33-foot (10 m) wide entryway facing to the west.
In 1904 the state of Indiana authorized $2,000 to build a memorial to the victims of the Pigeon Roost Massacre. It is a 44-foot-tall (13 m) obelisk and the area was made a state historic site in 1929. Recently, new historic markers were placed on US-31 at the entrance to the site and a picnic shelter was built.
[36] [37] Historian Jacob Piatt Dunn is credited for naming the Potawatomi's forced march "The Trail of Death" in his book, True Indian Stories (1909). [38] It was the single largest Indian removal in the state. [39] Journals, letters, and newspaper accounts of the journey provide details of the route, weather, and living conditions.
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Three boys, 6, 12, and 13 years old, were killed. A 36-year-old woman, a 74-year-old woman and a 74-year-old man also died, county officials said.
Trenton: Confederate Memorial in Veterans Park next to the town square. Union Point: Confederate Reunion Memorial, along city sidewalk (1874). [98] Confederate Wayside Home Monument, wide median (1936). [99] Waycross: Ware County Confederate, Phoenix Park (1910). [100] Waynesboro: Confederate Memorial Cemetery, burial site of 49 Confederate ...