Marietta National Cemetery
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Marietta National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Marietta in Cobb County, Georgia. It encompasses 23.3 acres, and as of the end of 2006, had 18,742 interments. It is closed to new interments, and maintained by Georgia National Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM1RBZ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/30/2007
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Originally established in 1866 by General George Henry Thomas as Marietta and Atlanta National Cemetery, it was intended to provide interment for nearly 10,000 Union dead from General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign.
The land for the cemetery was donated by local resident Henry Cole, as a place to inter both Union and Confederate soldiers. His idea was that by burying together those who had fallen together in battle, it could help foster a kind of peace. Both sides rejected his proposal, and the land was used primarily to inter Union soldiers. As part of the land sale agreement, the Cole family has their own plot within the National Cemetery
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