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Wed., October 31, 2012 2:49pm
Interest in the ghost of a Confederate soldier has become so great that the National Park Service is closing some roads into a north Georgia Civil War battlefield this Halloween. Rangers say they hope that closing all of the secondary roads into Chickamauga Battlefield Wednesday night helps keep ghost hunters from wandering around.
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Tue., May 15, 2012 8:32am
The Jonesboro City Council voted Monday night to approve plans to annex and rezone a Civil War battlefield to make way for a funeral home planning to open on the site.
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Tue., November 22, 2011 8:45am
A Sons of Confederate Veterans group plans to erect a monument on the Griswoldville battlefield site in Jones County. The battle took place on Nov. 22, 1864 during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's march to the sea.
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Mon., August 15, 2011 3:49pm
The privately owned 16-acre tract on Burnt Hickory Road is thick with pines and young hardwoods, but little else of interest other than its role as a staging ground for a Civil War battle 147 years ago. The land's history has its next-door neighbor, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, working to scrounge up $2.7 million to buy land. That's the asking price sought by the Cherokee County tract's private owners, who have put the land up for sale.
