Battle of Atlanta
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The Battlefield Today
This playlist contains seven videos that show what the terrain depicted in the Cyclorama painting looks like in 2018...
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Cyclorama
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Learn More
- The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance, Daniel A. Pollock
- War in Our Backyards, Atlanta Journal Constitution
- History Underfoot, Georgia Tech
- The Many Battles of Atlanta, Bitter Southerner
- Battle of Atlanta, American Battlefield Trust
- The Battle of Atlanta, Today › A Civil War Tour, InHeritage Almanack
The absence of a historically preserved battlefield means that visitors seeking firsthand knowledge about the places and events that figured prominently in the Battle of Atlanta must go beyond the almost effortless engagement with history available at well-preserved Civil War sites, such as Kennesaw Mountain, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg. Visits to the Atlanta battlefield, even via virtual tour, require greater self-reliance and a more active process of combining historical accounts, maps, and images with present-day visual evidence to ferret out what happened, where, and why. The rewards are great. By juxtaposing information from then and now, visitors traveling through contemporary Atlanta gain a new and powerful perspective on the city, its neighborhoods, and their place in history. Exploring seemingly ordinary sites is a way to gain a new awareness of history, even if the sites are often encountered during our everyday routines. Landscape historian John R. Stilgoe encourages us to scrutinize those places, put them in spatial context, and arrange them in time. "Enjoy the best kept secret around," Stilgoe writes, "the ordinary everyday landscape that rewards any explorer, that touches any explorer with magic. — Daniel A. Pollock