“Johnston will then have to retreat below Resaca, or we shall interpose between him and Georgia.” This signal sentence from a telegraph Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman sent to Maj. Gen.

With the help of the American Battlefield Protection Program, Gordon County, Civil War Trust, Georgia Battlefields Association and Friends of Resaca, a conservation easement was put on this land ...

As the photograph was taken, Moreno told the family that more than 400 women served in combat during the Civil War — including one woman found in a mass grave on the Resaca, Georgia, battlefield.