Marietta Confederate Cemetery is a large

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located in

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, adjacent to the larger Marietta City Cemetery. The Marietta Confederate Cemetery is one of the largest burial grounds for Confederate dead. It is the resting place to over 3,000 soldiers from all 11 Confederate states plus

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, and

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. The cemetery was established in 1863 as a gift from Jane Glover who was the wife of Marietta's first mayor. It sits on the site of a former

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church that was later moved to a new location in downtown Marietta and the land was acquired by John Glover – Marietta's first mayor. There was initially an offer to bury Confederate dead along with dead Union soldiers at the

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, but the offer was refused because Marietta officials did not want Confederate dead to be buried near Yankee dead. Soldiers killed in the battles of Chickamauga (in

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and

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), Kolb's Farm and

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from the Atlanta Campaign are interred there.

Notable monuments

A 6-pound field

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originally presented to the

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(which was in Marietta) by the State of Georgia which was used in the war and captured by Union forces near

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. It was later retrieved from an arsenal in New York and contains the Latin inscription "Victrix Fortunae Sapientia" which translates to "wisdom, the Victor over Fortune". Each Confederate state and some others (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) has a marble monument noting the section that its soldiers are buried in. Marietta Confederate Cemetery 20060326 RIMG0024

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Inscriptions in the cemetery

Inscriptions on a monument: * "To the 3000 soldiers in this cemetery, from every Southern State, who fell on Georgia soil, in defense of Georgia rights and Georgia homes." * "They sleep the sleep of our noble slain; Defeated, yet without a stain; Proudly and peacefully."

Interesting burials

A former black slave, a drummer, William Yopp, who served along with Captain Thomas Yopp in the 14th Georgia Infantry, lived an adventurous life and later lived out the rest of his life in the

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Preservation

The

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owned the cemetery and the Kennesaw Chapter of the

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helped with its maintenance for a long time. Currently, the Marietta Confederate Cemetery Foundation and Friends of Brown Park, Inc. is committed to the preservation of the cemetery.

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Living History Sites

Marietta City Cemeteries
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