Battle of Atlanta

We can create a unforgettable Battle of Atlanta experience for your group. Please contact us for more information...
  • This pivotal battle, which took place on July 22, 1864, pitted some 75,000 Confederate and Union forces against one another in a large combat zone that includes the modern-day neighborhoods of East Atlanta, Kirkwood, Edgewood, Reynoldstown, Little Five Points, Inman Park and Poncey-Highland.
  • We do various public tours throughout the year.
  • We also do private tours for groups of any size.
  • We can do biking, walking and motor coach tours.

Tour Map

The Battlefield Today

This playlist contains seven videos that show what the terrain depicted in the Cyclorama painting looks like in 2018...

Cyclorama

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Railroad Cut from the Cyclorama painting
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Troup Hurt House from the Cyclorama painting
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Artist working on Cyclorama painting during restoration project at Atlanta History Center

Tour Photos

General James Birdseye McPherson

McPherson's Last Ride
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 ​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