Resaca Confederate Cemetery in Resaca, Georgia

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Coordinates: 34.60580, -84.94420
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Resaca Confederate Cemetery is near the town of Resaca, GA, along the Gordon-Whitfield county line. The Resaca Confederate Cemetery is the burial place of more than 450 Confederate soldiers who died in the fierce Battle of Resaca, GA, May 14-15, 1864. Hundreds of Union soldiers also died in the battle. Before the fighting began, Col. John F. Green and his family fled their home in Resaca. A short time after the battle, when the family was returning to their home, they were met with the sight of an unspeakable horror in the battlefield area surrounding their home: Dead soldiers still lying on the battleground where they had fallen or buried in shallow, crude makeshift graves. Green's daughters, Mary and Pyatt, were quite upset by the sight and immediately decided to start collecting the bodies and give them proper graves. Their father gave them 2.5 acres of land to use as a cemetery. They, their mother and cook and maid began re-interring the bodies in the new cemetery. Mary Green later raised money to cover the costs incurred from the project. From the two days of the Battle of Resaca, there are only three graves where the death date is listed as May 15, 1864. The remaining graves are listed as May 14, 1864. Some of the soldiers were identified but there are still 424 graves marked "unknown".