Cheatham Hill Loop Trail at Kennesaw Mountain - Atlanta Trails
Towering monuments, antique cannons, and battlefields scatter around Cheatham Hill in the shadow of nearby Kennesaw Mountain. While this trail’s route is steeped in Civil War history, it’s also drenched in natural beauty, too, with grassy meadows, trickling creeks, wildflowers, and flowering trees along its length.
Cheatham Hill - American Battlefield Trust
Brig. Gen. George Maney's brigade held the sector in front of the Fourteenth Corps attack. Maney's Tennesseans belonged to Maj. Gen. Frank Cheatham's division. Their position jutted forth in an inverted V salient on a rise that came to be called Cheatham's Hill.
Cheatham Hill - Wikipedia
Cheatham Hill is a summit in the U.S. state of Georgia. [1] The elevation is 1,122 feet (342 m). [1] Cheatham Hill was named after Benjamin F. Cheatham, a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. [2] The hill was the scene of heavy fighting during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. [3]
One Last Mountain: A Battlefield That's Much More - U.S. National …
The summit is a 700-foot precipice called Big Kennesaw. To the south is a spur named Pigeon Hill. Further south is a ridge soon to be known as Cheatham Hill. With an imposing seven-mile line of defense the confederates will dare Sherman to attack. Just 20 miles beyond Kennesaw Mountain is Atlanta.
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - Wikipedia
Major General James B. McPherson feinted against the northern end of Kennesaw Mountain, while his corps under Major General John A. Logan assaulted Pigeon Hill on its southwest corner. At the same time, Major General George H. Thomas launched strong attacks against Cheatham Hill at the center of the Confederate line.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park | DRIVING TO CHEATHAM HILL …
2020年2月14日 · Cheatham Hill is the best preserved area of the battlefield within Kennesaw Mountain National Military Park, and it is the one place where visitors can make an emotional connection to the battle. The site is well preserved because shortly after the war Union veterans from Illinois came to Georgia and bought up the land on which the battle took ...
Kennesaw Mountain NBP | CHEATHAM HILL / KOLB FARM LOOP …
2020年2月14日 · The Cheatham Hill site is also not on the loop trail, but you don’t have to venture onto the street to visit. When you approach the Cheatham Hill area you will see the backside of a wooden sign, the only sign on the trail not facing counterclockwise hikers.
Park Archives: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - NPS …
2024年8月24日 · Cheatham Hill To protect this hill, now named for Confederate Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham, the Southerners created a salient (a protruding angle) in their lines. The fiercest fighting of the battle raged here at what came to be called the "Dead Angle."
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - New Georgia Encyclopedia
2005年12月9日 · The first would capture Pigeon Hill just south of Kennesaw Mountain, while a larger assault would overrun a wooded ridge further to the south (known today as Cheatham Hill in honor of Confederate major general Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, whose Tennesseans defended the hill).
Cheatham Hill - Georgia Historical Society
Cheatham Hill. Year Erected: 1954. Marker Text: The intrenched line of the Confederate Army of Tenn., as of June 19-July 3, 1864, crossed the road here. This sector was held by Lt. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee's A.C. -- the right of his line at Kennesaw Mtn., the left, from 1 …