(June 2008) Enlarge Here at Stone Mountain, Sherman and half his army marveled at the bald 850-foot high granite monolith on their first day's march from the ruins of Atlanta

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(June 2008) Enlarge Ironically the mountain's face now contains America's most spectacular monument to the vanquished Confederacy

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(June 2008) Enlarge In the historic village of Stone Mountain is a cemetery (intersection of Silver Hill Drive and Memorial Drive), where 150 soldiers are buried in a Confederate section. They died of wounds or disease during the war and several were killed defending Stone Mountain during a Union cavalry raid. On July 17,1864, the railroad was demolished and the town of New Gibraltar (Stone Mountain) burned

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