Civil War

A color drawing of a 19th century cannon

From the Editor September 8, 2024

Secessionist fantasies: 1861 style

By Larry Felton Johnson While browsing 19th-century issues of Cobb County newspapers on the Georgia Historic Newspapers site, I ran across these two articles in the secessionist Marietta Advocate. Both…

Chattahoochee River looking south from Highway 78 toward the site of the South Cobb Water Reclamation Facility repair

Cobb County July 12, 2024

Friends of Smyrna Library to host lecture on Civil War “Chattahoochee River Line”

Photo: Chattahoochee River from the Hwy 278 bridge looking southward — Larry Felton Johnson The Friends of Smyrna Library will hold a lecture this Sunday on the Civil War fortifications…

William Root House, a two story wooden pre-Civil War house

Marietta February 21, 2024

William Root House to present lecture on Civil War soldier photography

William Root House (photo by Larry Felton Johnson) The William Root House will present a lecture entitled “Civil War Soldier Photography” on March 16, 2024, at 6 p.m. The presenter…

Marietta January 22, 2024

January 22, 1861: the Marietta Advocate reports on secession

The Courier uses the Georgia Historic Newspaper site housed at the University of Georgia to assemble history articles based on contemporary news reports. From the formation of Cobb County in…

a front page of an 1861 edition of the Marietta Advocate

History January 17, 2024

Civil War era Cobb County court clerk absconds with the cash

If we consider the backlog in the Cobb County clerk’s office now scandalous, imagine reader reaction to this brief story from the February 1, 1861, issue of the Marietta Advocate:…

Cobb County, History, Smyrna December 24, 2023

Shoupade Park: a small park built around Civil War fortifications

This is an update of an article originally published in the Courier in April of 2016. Since then, another park was developed that also includes Shoupades: Discovery Park on the…

History February 16, 2022

Kennesaw State’s Center for the Study of the Civil War Era to host symposium March 19

The Kennesaw State University Center for the Study of the Civil War Era distributed the following announcement about this year’s annual symposium, to be held Saturday, March 19 from 9…

Former City Councilman Jimmy Dickens told the Council it was time for the Confederate flag to go.

Kennesaw June 16, 2020

Confederate flag will no longer fly in downtown Kennesaw park

More than two hours of often heated and emotional public comment preceded Monday’s announcement that the Confederate battle flag will no longer fly in downtown Kennesaw’s Memorial Park on Main…

William Root House, a two-story white wooden house with an external chimney surrounded by a picket fence

Marietta June 7, 2017

Re-enactment of Sherman’s occupation of Marietta to be held July 8 at Root House

On Saturday July 8, 2017, 10 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. the William Root House Museum & Garden will host a re-enactment of the July 1864 occupation of Marietta by General…

Cobb County Parks May 5, 2017

Park near Discovery Boulevard and the Chattahoochee would bring Civil War history to life

It can be hard to believe with so many subdivisions, wide highways, high-rises and now a Major League Baseball stadium operating near the Chattahoochee River, but southeast Cobb County was…

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Cobb County November 21, 2024

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