The war made way for another battle, also fought in Atlanta and elsewhere, for civil rights. For some, the 1861-65 war looms as large today as it did when cannons thundered in East Atlanta ...

The Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum surrounds visitors with history. ... Today, visitors can tour the Green-Meldrim House, which served as Sherman’s Savannah headquarters, ...

Fred Bentley Sr. held history in his hand — a cannon shell, the same sort that killed a Confederate general who had the misfortune to catch the eye of Union Gen.

The first time Calinda Lee saw the “Battle of Atlanta” Cyclorama, she rolled her eyes in disbelief. The colossal 133-year-old panoramic painting of the Civil War battle featured thousands of ...

ATLANTA (AP) - This much everyone can agree on: A small Civil War museum, nestled in an old farmhouse at the site of a purported battlefield, has closed its doors and boxed up its Confederate and ...