Cheatham Hill Battlefield, just west of Marietta, GA.

GrayGhost

The battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought from 8:00am until 12:00 pm on June 27, 1864. This Sunday morning, June 27th, is exactly 140 years to the day that the battle was fought. There were 3000+ Union soldiers killed in action, with 5000+ wounded and exactly 986 Confederate soldiers killed in action, with 1200+ wounded, along an eight mile front, from Cheatham's Hill to Pigeon Hill just north of Burnt Hickory Rd. The majority of the Union troops killed, over 1500+, was in the fields leading up toward Cheatham's Hill. This part of the battlefield was known as "the Dead Angle", by both sides, because there were so many dead union soldiers piled up just below the Confederate trenches at this salient in the line. The Confedrates called this area Cheatham's Hill, in honor of Gen. Benjamin Cheatham, the commanding General of the Tennessee troops in the trenches during this battle. The Illinois memorial monument is located exactly at this point in the trench line. The fighting began exactly at 9:00am after a 1 hour Union artillery barrage with the attack called off at 12:00pm as a complete failure. This was Sherman's biggest defeat of the campaign. Some Union troops at the angle remained dug-in just below the hill crest, less than 60 yards from the Confederate trenches. These troops shot and killed each other for three more days and nights.The fighting was stopped on the afternoon of June 30, 1864, by commanders on both sides, and a long trench was dug between the lines. The dead Union soldiers were buried in a mass grave. These 1000+ soldiers have never been disinterred to this day. Needless-to-say this battlefield is one of the most active sites in Georgia and the S.E., similar to Gettysburg battlefield. The National Park opens at 8:30 am and does not close until 7:30 pm during the summer. I will be there Sunday, around 9:00 am, if anyone wishes to join me. There are many areas to search on this site.
The directions are simple, go north on Cobb Parkway (also GA. Hwy. 41). Turn left at the "Big Chicken" on Roswell Rd., Hwy. 120. Go a few miles to the Marietta Square. Go counter clockwise to west side of square. Then turn right on Hwy. 120 West, go over the railroad tracks, road is then called Witlock Ave. and becomes Dallas Highway 120. Go a couple of miles, you will pass new Marietta High on your left and then begin to enter the park area. Follow sign and turn left on Cheatham Hill Drive. Go to the end of drive and park. "The Dead Angle" is down the trail several hundred yards and will be on your left just east of the Illinois monument. The trenches are clearly visable and there is a battery of 12lb. Confederate Cannons on the left, going down the trail to Cheatham's Hill. These hidden cannons slaughtered the regiments of Union troops in the fields below all during the battle. Shocked

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Heidi · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject:

I wish I could go sunday but wont be able to.but please let us know how your hunt goes.I visited Kennesaw battlefield years ago,but not for ghost hunting.I very much want to visit,and also go the kennesaw house?

Have you ever hunted either?

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MariettaHunter · Mist Joined: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Marietta

Great account! - I could load up the 35mm with B & W along with a big cup of java if there's an interest:-)

Heidi · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:29 pm Post subject:

sure wish I could go..Y'all let me know how it goes.I have wanted to go there for awhile now.

Good luck..Happy hunting to ya'll

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Heidi · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject:

I enjoyed your experience Jody,I feel sure the quilt had some tie to it from that era.
I took am fascinated with civil war era...and would love to visit more sites here in Ga that are most likely active Laughing

When you visit Ga,a huntin we will go!! Very Happy

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GrayGhost · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject: Piece of quilt

Jody, that is a very interesting experience. Many Confederate Civil War infantry soldiers carried patch quilts made by their wives, girlfriends, or mothers instead of blankets. Most of the wool in the south went into gray uniform material and not blankets. The blankets that the south used were mostly captured from Union supply depots. Some southern depots did issue blankets, like Atlanta, GA. Depot, Columbus, GA. Depot and Selma, AL. Depot just to name a few. Usually blankets were short on issue as the cavalry used them for saddle pads. Usually wives and mothers would make patch quilts out of reminant cloth and give to their husbands and sons before going into battle in Virginia, Tennessee or elsewhere. Maybe this piece of material is from a quilt used by a Confederate soldier that was killed in action? Usually 1860's to 1890's cloth is more loosely woven and the weaves are not as tight as more modern cloth from the 1940's up to the present. This still is a very interesting experience. I read a similar story about a man that spent the night in a haunted hotel room. He said he woke up in the middle of the night and could not breathe or catch his breath. He said it felt like someone was sitting on his chest. Finally he was able to catch his breath. The next morning a maid at the hotel told him that the room he stayed in had the ghost of a man that had killed himself in the room and she had seen him many times. Apparently the old hotel used to be a boarding house back at the turn of the century and the man had lived in that room. I believe that this old hotel is in Savannah, but I will have to look it up. Shocked

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GrayGhost · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: Recording outdoors in the rain.

Does anyone know good techniques to record EVP's with a digital recorder, if it is raining? Or is it a lost cause because the mic picks up so much static background sound from the rain?
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MariettaHunter · Mist Joined: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Marietta

That's amazing SG!

NosesCreekPaul · Guest

I would have liked to have been at Cheatham Hill on the 27th for the 140th anniversary of the battle...I was there 40 years ago in 1964 for the centennial anniversary of the battle at the age of 11, at which time I lived on Cleburne Ave. I got up at 6AM that day and walked to the battlefield and walked across the angle and down the hill to the woods just across the creek, where it is well worn now by all the mountain bikes, ridden most likely by same people that signed the Save the Big Chicken petiton, but are letting the history of Cobb Co. get paved over...I say this for a particular reason...I lived on the land where the big Home Depot is now between the ages of 4 and 8...this where Noses Creek goes under Dallas Hwy. and the day before Cheatham Hill (June 26th, 1864) there was a skirmish at the creek crossing between Confederate and Union troopsthe purpose of which was to delay the Union so Cheatham could complete the trenchworks at the Angle...the Confederates were dug in pretty well on the east side of the creek, but had set up several skirmish lines on both the north and south sides of Dallas Rd. as far west as Ridgeway Rd.(what is now Barrett Pkwy.)...we lived on the hill (now gone) just west of Noses Creek, across from where Villa Rica Rd. ended and even then, 1957-1961 there were very visable trenchworks in the woods...often during the night in early summer (around June 24th/25th) you could hear men in the woods chopping trees and sawing logs. My daddy would tell us it was the saw mill working late (Turner's Saw Mill was directly north of where we lived), and he would always walk to the edge of the woods and look and come back and say (sorta shaky), "yep....the saw mill" and send us back to bed...one June night in 1960, when I was 7, my brother and I were sleeping on the screened porch at the east end of the house and my brother went in and woke my mom and daddy up, to tell them I was out in the yard...it was about midnight and when my daddy came out in the yard I said "look daddy...men are camping down by the creek"...he looked where I was looking right by where the cow tunnel went under Dallas Rd. and said "looks like...must be frog giggin'...you better get back up on the porch and try to get some sleep. We'll go down in the morning and see if the got any" In the meantime, my brother and mom had come out in the yard and asked, "what is he talking about?" My daddy replied, "the camp fires down by the creek bridge..." my mom asked "what camp fires?" He said, "they're dimming now...let's all go back to bed now" He and I went down there the next morning, and the men were gone...we didn't talk about it again until 3 1/2 years ago, rightr before my daddy died...alll he said was..."I saw them too..."

GrayGhost · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:

NosesCreekPaul, that is a great story about the Noses Creek skirmish-line. The first one that I have heard with that number of full torso apparitions at the Kennesaw Mtn. battlefield. I just read a story the other day about a retired older couple that lives in a house located on part of the Kolb Farm battlefield. A confederate soldier keeps walking through their house at night. They have both seen him.
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