Posted on 11/21/2002 6:36:39 AM PST by stainlessbanner
KENNESAW - The museum at the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is scheduled to reopen Saturday.
It has been closed since 1997 to undergo renovations.
A national park ranger and curator - Retha Stephens - says the park strived to take the museum a step beyond the ordinary.
The museum in Marietta uses artifacts from the battle and a new documentary to examine Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's complete trip through Georgia.
The films and exhibits consider the effects of battle not only on Union and Confederate troops but also on citizens.
A timeline stretching from the rumblings of a Civil War to Union General Ulysses Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia in 1864 directs visitors into the exhibit.
The museum looks at Sherman's Georgia campaign beginning with battles near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the surrender of Atlanta on September 2nd, 1864.
The center accommodates more than 300,000 visitors each year, not including the thousands who walk the trails and battlefields without stepping foot inside the center.
"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast." -- William Tecumseh Sherman
A few months ago, I took my very Yankee wife to visit the battlefield and the darn museum was closed.
Today, she now understands what the South was fighting to protect.
- General Sherman "The Great Atrocity Hunt," National Review, December 16, 1969.
Cheatam Hill and Dead Angle are really amazing. If you don't get a little misty eyed at the earthworks, you just ain't right : )
Kennesaw, nice handle!
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