Walking the Line: Rediscovering and Touring the Civil War Defenses on Modern Atlanta’s Landscape
Lawrence Krumenaker, Hermograph Press
For six weeks in the summer of 1864, Atlanta was defended by a roughly square-shaped perimeter of 36 forts, until the Union threat to secure the last railroad compelled General John Bell Hood to abandon the city on September 1, after which it surrendered. The city was subsequently burned down, rebuilt, expanded and modernized, leaving it for Lawrence Krumenaker to find and document herein the forts’ original locations, and in the process give even longtime Atlanta residents a guide to rediscover remnants of their Civil War heritage—some paved over, some merely overlooked.
Originally published in the April 2015 issue of Civil War Times. To subscribe, click here.
