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During the War Between the States, 1861-1865, 155 Confederate soldiers wounded in the Battle of Atlanta and evacuated died in several improvised hospitals in Barnesville. The main hospital stood at this site. A marble headstone marks each soldier’s grave in nearby Greenwood Cemetery. Two Federal troopers are buried with the Confederates and each Memorial Day receive the same tribute. The dead represented Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
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Barnesville, Georgia · United States
