Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Kennesaw State ...

Existing Conditions
Touch stations are currently
being planned, in order
to add an experiential,
interactive element to the
current museum exhibits.
28 I National Park Service
Exhibits
The exhibits area begins outside its
“Museum Entrance” doors with two
panels that interpret “The Atlanta
Campaign” (on a 3’ x 4’ panel) and
an overview of Civil War, “A Nation
Divided,” and its fi rst four years leading
up to the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
(on a 16’ x 4’ panel).
Once inside the exhibit area’s entry
doors, there are exhibits covering the
following topics/titles:
Georgia – 1864
Why They fi ght
Setting the Stage: The Northern
Perspective
Setting the Stage: The southern
Perspective
Strategic Center of the South
War Brings changes
The Art of Moving Armies
Fighting Battles
Linear Tactics
Rally ‘round the Flag
1864 the Atlanta Campaign Begins
Life in Kennesaw’s Shadow ‘The
Prettiest town in Georgia’
Caring for the Wounded
Artillery Display (Has no title)
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
1864 The Atlanta Campaign
Continues
Desolation, Sherman Destroys
Atlanta
They Who Fought Here
1864 Sherman’s March to the Sea
Splits the Confederacy
1865 the South Surrenders
Reconciliation and Remembrance
Aftermath
Exhibits
Also within the visitor center’s exhibit
area, “reader rail” topics include:
Northern Political concerns
A Plan for Victory
Rebuilding an Army
Georgia’s War Industries
Sherman’s Lifeline
Georgians Answer the Call to Arms
Hard Times on the Home Front
Combat at Kennesaw
o June 22, 1864 – 4:00 p.m.
o June 27, 1864 – 8:00 a.m.
o June 27, 1864 – 8:00 a.m.
o June 27, 1864 – 9:00 a.m.
o June 27, 1864 – 8:00 a.m.
1864: Critical Election Years
Occupation, September 2-
November 15, 1864
Path of Destruction
The Human Cost
Audiovisual Program
In 1997, the Friends of Kennesaw
Mountain funded a $100,000 fi lm
titled “The Atlanta Campaign.” This
18-minute audiovisual program was
produced by the Compro Company in
Atlanta, Georgia. The Friends group
owns the “use rights” to this audiovisual
program and is reluctant to allow the
National Park Service the rights to use
its images and/or revise its content.
This is a challenge for the park staff
because this audiovisual program does
not address the issue of “Slavery as a
cause of the Civil War” in a manner that
is acceptable to current legislative acts.