Smyrna in the Civil War

FIRST SUNDAY LECTURE 
"Smyrna, Georgia: Civil War Battlefield"
Sunday, July 6, 2014
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Public Library, Meeting Room
 
Speaker: Dr. William Marchione, author of A Brief History of Smyrna, Georgia

Dr. Marchione, Ph.D., the author of the recently published, A Brief History of Smyrna, Georgia, will present a slide / lecture on "Smyrna, Georgia: Civil War Battlefield" that will demonstrate that the battles and troop movements in and around Smyrna (at Smyrna Camp Ground, Ruff's Mill, and at the River Line fortifications) were far more important and decisive than is generally recognized.

His talk will deal with such facets of the Atlanta campaign as General Francis Asbury Shoup's two defensive barriers constructed in South Cobb---the Smyrna Line and the River Line, the latter dubbed by historians as "The Maginot Line of the Confederacy."

The "First Sunday" lecture series is held in the Smyrna Public Library Meeting Room and is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.