Resaca

View our collection of photos and images from this 1864 Atlanta Campaign battlefield in Georgia.

(10 photos in gallery)

The Battle of Resaca

Charlie Crawford

Illustration of the Battle of Resaca from Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper

The Hills of Resaca

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Historic photo taken by George Barnard of the Confederate positions east of Camp Creek

Medders Marker

Courtesy Charlie Crawford

This marker explains the May 14 action at Resaca in which the Union 4th Corps extended the Federal left to the east. Much of the subsequent fighting took place on the Trust's current target property.

Confederate Defenders at Resaca

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Confederate defenders repulsing the Union assaults on Resaca in this wartime illustration

Simonson's Battery

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From this position, Captain Peter Simonson's 5th Indiana Battery fought off repeated assaults by John Bell Hood's Confederates in the late afternoon of May 14, 1864.

"Cherokee Battery"

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Placed in this position by Lt. Gen. John B. Hood, Capt. Max Van Den Corput's "Cherokee Battery" harassed Federal troops for most of May 15.

Van Den Corput's entrenchment

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Hoosiers under future President Col. Benjamin Harrison swarmed over these entrenchments amidst salvos of canister to seize the guns of Van Den Corput's Confederate Battery.

Confederate Trenches at Resaca

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George Barnard's historic photo of the Confederate entrenchments at Resaca

Resaca Cemetery

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After the battle, local resident Mary Green established this small cemetery on her property as a final resting place for the soldiers who died at Resaca.