Dates from 1917, with the federal acquisition of sixty acres of the battlefield surrounding Cheatham's Hill, the battle in June 1864 marks some of the heaviest fighting of the Atlanta campaign.
It was acquired by the state in the 1970s and retains the pristine woods-and-ravines topography, when 10,000 Confederate troops thwarted a Union assault.
Built in the 1830s and 1840s on Cockspur Island, this masonry fort was designed to defend Savannah.
The fort was restored as a historic site for the public in the late 1930s through funding provided by automotive pioneer Henry Ford.
"Turning Point: The American Civil War" ranks among the nation's largest Civil War exhibitions with 1,400 objects including artifacts, manuscripts, uniforms and weapons.
More than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here between February 1864 and May 1865. 13,700 Union soldiers are buried at the site, which is preserved as a national cemetery.
Home of Confederate vice president Alexander Stephen. Stephen's bought the estate in 1845 and lived in its house until 1875, when he tore down the main structure to build Liberty Hall.
Opened in 1962, the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus displays the wooden hulls of two Confederate gunboats that had been destroyed near the end of the war to prevent enemy capture.
The largest painting in the country and one of only two cycloramas depicts a view of the Civil War battle from just inside the Fifteenth Corps lines at about 4:30 p.m. on July 22, 1864.
