The first Confederate cemetery in Georgia was established at Resaca

The more than 450 Confederate soldiers buried in Resaca's Confederate Cemetery are commemorated there. The cemetery was established on October 25, 1866. After the conflict, Resaca resident Mary S. Green was horrified to see the victims scattered across the fields and she started gathering them to give them appropriate graves. Mary started interring men at what is now known as the Resaca Confederate Cemetery, where 420 unknown Confederate soldiers' graves are organized in concentric circles, using money she had amassed and land she had inherited from her father.

The battlefield, a region of privately owned farms, meadows, and wooded hills, was mostly unaltered for almost a century. Confederate earthworks that spanned about half a mile were destroyed in 1960 when Interstate 75 was built across the area.