Marietta Confederate Cemetery
Founded in 1863 when Jane Glover donated a corner of her plantation to bury about twenty Confederate soldiers killed in a train wreck north of town, the cemetery swelled during the Atlanta Campaign into one of the largest Confederate burial grounds in the South, holding more than 3,000 dead from thirteen states. Visitors and amateur ghost hunters report the heaviest presence on the high hill near the unmarked graves of enslaved people, where photographs catch drifting orbs and a strange mist, and where people describe a sudden, watched, depressed feeling. The cemetery's most persistent legend is a solitary man seen sitting alone in a gazebo near the high fence, who vanishes moments after anyone acknowledges him, leaving no way he could have slipped out. Some say the restless dead are the soldiers themselves, still keeping a vigil over a field that filled faster than anyone could bury it.
📍 395 Powder Springs St SW, Marietta, GA, Marietta, GA · Get directions