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- RESACA_061009_02.JPG: The Battle of Resaca: May 14, 1864:
The Battle of Resaca was one of the few places where the entire armies of Sherman and Johnston faced each other in the Atlanta Campaign. Judah's (2nd) Div. 23rd Army Corps & part of the 14th Corps (US) moved from the high bluff west of Camp Creek 3/4 mile west to the valley floor & attempted to carry Confederate works east of the stream.
Met by blazing musketry & artillery fire from Hindman's and Bates Divs. (CSA), posted on the ridge (east), the Federals sought refuge in the stream-bed & made no further progress. This tragic & futile episode is unique in the annals of the Atlanta Campaign.
- RESACA_061009_07.JPG: Atlanta Campaign Pavilion #3:
Atlanta Campaign
Resaca
May 13-15, 1864
In this vicinity, the Confederate lines north and west of Resaca held firm against Federal attack. Sherman then executed a successful flank movement to the west and south around Johnston's position, thus making the Confederate line untenable and compelling the troops of the Confederacy to move deeper into Georgia.
- Wikipedia Description: Resaca, Georgia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Resaca is a city in Gordon County, Georgia, along the Oostanaula River. The population was 815 at the 2000 census. ...
History:
The city was named by returning Mexican-American War inductees who fought at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma (translated Dry River Bed of the Palms) near Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1846.
Resacas are former channels of the Rio Grande. There are two explanations for the origin of the word "resaca." The less likely holds that it is a contraction of Spanish rio seco ("dry river"). The other is that the word stems from the Spanish resacar ("to retake"), since the primary geological function of a resaca seems to be diversion and dissipation of floodwater from the river. Resacas are naturally cut off from the river, having no inlet or outlet.
Shortened to Resaca, anecdotes abound as to the derivation of the placename, one involving the capture of an Indian maiden by settlers to be offered in marriage to the single man of her choosing. Transported by her captors to the center of the settlement in a gunnysack, she was ceremoniously unveiled to the awaiting public. Upon being viewed in the sunlight, onlookers were aghast at her homeliness; whereupon chants of "Re-sack-'er" arose. The Town of Resaca was incorporated and granted a charter by the State of Georgia in 1981.
The Civil War Battle of Resaca was fought in and around Resaca in May 1864. Each year a reenactment of the Battle of Resaca, the first battle on Atlanta Campaign, is held on the third weekend of May.
Resaca is also the location of the first Confederate Cemetery in the state of Georgia. The story of the cemetery is as follows:
The memory of a Georgia woman, Mary J. Green, who with her own hands gathered and interred the bones and bodies of the Confederate dead left lying on the Resaca Battlefield, should always be sacred to us. The sight that greeted the Green family when they returned to their plantation after the battle was almost more than they could bear. Around the house on all sides were scattered graves of Confederates who had been buried where they fell. The Green daughters conceived the idea of collecting all the bodies and re-interring them in a plot of land to be known as a Confederate cemetery. The one great drawback, however, was that they had no money. In the summer of 1866, Mary began writing to her friends around the state, begging them to try and raise money for the cemetery. Although poverty was rampant in the South, the citizenry responded by giving what they could, be it a nickel, a dime, a quarter, or a dollar. Col. Green gave his daughters 2.5 acres of land with rustic bridges spanning the stream through the grounds of their cemetery.
The account of the first Memorial Day, October 25, 1866, written by Mary Green: "The day selected for the dedication ... was bright and beautiful, one of those charming days of our Indian summers where no sound was heard save the fluttering of falling leaves - a suitable accompaniment to our sad thoughts, as we stood in the 'bivouac of the dead.' " This cemetery and one at Winchester, Virginia, were consecrated and dedicated on the same day, each sponsoring group thinking theirs was the first Confederate Cemetery.
Since 1977, the Resaca area has been the home of the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension , housed in the former midcentury modern hilltop residence purchased from the late Rev. Thurman Chitwood, local entrepreneur and ordained minister in the Church of Christ. The denomination of which Chitwood was a part has received much criticism for its intrusive practices and has been characterized as a cult , but in contrast to Chitwood's fundamentalist underpinnings, the orthodox monastery has created an ironic cultural juxtaposition. The monastery is the only Orthodox Christian monastery in the state of Georgia. At one time the monastery offered hospice to those afflicted with AIDS. Local detractors, prejudiced to AIDS patients and fearing the unfounded casual communicabity of AIDS unsuccessfully sought to have its permitting revoked. The monastery, just across the line in Whitfield County, is under the authority of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It maintains a cemetery for Orthodox Christians.
The Resaca Beach Poster Girl Contest , a swimsuit pageant at one time known throughout the South, was founded in the nearby city of Dalton in 1983 as a marketing gimmick of Conquest Carpet Mills, Inc. The name is tongue-in-cheek, since there is no ocean for hundreds of miles, although it draws reference to a once popular bathing spot on the Oostanaula riverbank commonly deemed Resaca Beach. Local boosterism proclaims: "Resaca Beach - North Georgia's Gateway to the Gulf." The pageant, which launched the career of Gordon County native Marla Maples, former spouse of real estate magnate Donald Trump, has been held intermittently since the mid-1980s, most recently in 2005. Married in 1993, Maples and Trump have one child, Tiffany, (born October 13, 1993). They divorced on June 8, 1999.
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Battle of Resaca
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Resaca was part of the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle was waged in Gordon and Whitfield counties Georgia from May 13 to May 15, 1864. It ended inconclusively.
The battle was fought between the Military Division of the Mississippi (led by William T. Sherman) on the side of the Union and the Army of Tennessee (Joseph E. Johnston) for the Confederates. There were 5,547 casualties: 2,747 for the Union and 2,800 for the Confederacy.
Johnston had withdrawn from Rocky Face Ridge to the hills around Resaca. Sherman's men crossed the Etowah River using newly delivered Cumberland pontoon bridges and advanced toward Johnston's position.
On May 13, the Union troops tested the Rebel lines to pinpoint their whereabouts. The next day full scale fighting occurred, and the Union troops were generally repulsed except on the Rebel right flank where Sherman did not fully exploit his advantage. On May 15, the battle continued with no advantage to either side until Sherman sent a force across the Oostanaula River, at Lay’s Ferry, towards Johnston’s railroad supply line. Unable to halt this Union movement, Johnston was forced to retire.
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