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After the 1864 battle, Resaca's Mary J. Green and her family gathered more than 440 Confederate dead into what became one of the nation's first Confederate cemeteries. Nearby Fort Wayne, begun in 1862, holds Georgia's best-preserved Civil War earthworks.
Resaca's Confederate Cemetery / Resaca's Fort Wayne is a historical marker in Resaca, Gordon County. It is one of 65 historical markers documented in Gordon County, among 104 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.5870, -84.9552 near Resaca. The nearest cataloged historic site is Civil War Fighting Men (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Why Fight at Resaca?, Resaca Battlefield State Historic Site, and South Toward Atlanta.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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