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(May 2013) Enlarge Just in time for Memorial Day, here are photos of one of the earliest cemeteries set aside expressly for Confederate dead. The above overview shows the Tennessee section with the several markers and monuments in the background. According to the cemetery map and brochure,

More than 3,000 soldiers, from every Confederate state and Kentucky, now lie in the Marietta Confederate Cemetery. The cemetery was established in September, 1863, when Mrs. Jane Porter Glover donated the quiet corner of her Bushy Park Plantation to accommodate the burial of approximately 20 Confederate soldiers who perished in a train wreck just north of Marietta. A few new graves were added to the cemetery during the next several months, but major expansions did not occur until the war reached nearby Kennesaw Mountain on July 27, 1864
 
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(May 2013) Enlarge The greatest expansion of the cemetery took place when the guns at last fell silent. In 1866, the Georgia Legislature appropriated $3,500 to collect the remains of Confederate soldiers who fell elsewhere in Georgia and return them to Marietta for reburial. The recovery effort was spearheaded by Catherine Winn of the Ladies' Aid Society and Mary Green of the Georgia Memorial Association, who organized groups of women to search for soldiers who were killed on the battlefields at Ringgold, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, Kolb Farm, and the points north of the Chattahoochee River. These dedicated women helped bring the remains of hundreds of Confederate soldiers to rest with their comrades in Marietta
 
James Neel photo