Today Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park commemorates the men who died in two battles, the Battle of Kolb's Farm and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. The park incorporates a portion of the Kolb's Farm battle including the farmhouse that gave the battle its name, and most of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain including the Bloody Angle, where Confederates turned back a massive Yankee frontal assault. Kennesaw Mountain proved to be the worst Union defeat in the Atlanta Campaign.

The mountains northwest of Atlanta, known locally as Big and Little Kennesaw, have been a popular destination since the Georgia Railroad came through in 1845. Wealthy coastal planters would ride the Western and Atlantic Railroad to Dr. Cox's medicinal resort that used "healthy mountain waters" to cure just about anything. Marietta History Museum curator Dan Cox is a descendant of the original Dr. Cox.

William Tecumseh Sherman's rapid push south from Chattanooga, Tennessee early in May, 1864, brought his 100,000 man army to the base of Big Kennesaw in the middle of June. Joe Johnston's 60,000 man Army of Tennessee was stretched along an eight-mile front following the crest of the mountains south to Kolb's Farm,

Location:Just west of Marietta, GA
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