Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park was awarded more than $550,000 by the National Park Service to protect a parcel of land with extensive Civil War history.
Thanks to a $555,687 gift from the park service’s Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program, a 2.63-acre plot known as the “Dead Angle” will be protected forever to preserve the land’s battlefield history.
The “Dead Angle” was the origin point of the June 27, 1864, Union attack during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, one of the largest assaults in the battle’s history, according to the park…