Editing Marietta, Georgia (section)

===Civil War===
By the time the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] began in 1861, Marietta had recovered from the fires.<ref name="mhist"/>

In April 1862, James Andrews, a civilian working with the [[Union Army]], came to Marietta, along with a small party of Union soldiers dressed in civilian clothing. The group spent the night in the Fletcher House hotel (later known as the [[Kennesaw House]] and now the home of the Marietta Museum of History) located immediately in front of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Andrews and his men, who later became known as the Raiders, planned to seize a train and proceed north toward the city of [[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga]], destroying the railroad on their way. They hoped, in so doing, to isolate Chattanooga from Atlanta and bring about the downfall of the Confederate stronghold. The Raiders boarded a waiting train on the morning of April 12, 1862, along with other passengers. Shortly after, the train made a scheduled stop in the town of Big Shanty, now known as Kennesaw. When the other passengers alighted for breakfast, Andrews and the Raiders stole the engine and the car behind it, which carried the fuel. The engine, called ''[[The General (locomotive)|The General]]'', and Andrews' Raiders had begun the episode now known as the [[Great Locomotive Chase]].<ref name="mhist"/> Andrews and the Raiders failed in their mission. He and all of his men were caught within two weeks, including two men who had arrived late and missed the hijacking. All were tried as spies, convicted and hanged.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=1159|title=On this date in Civil War history: The Great Locomotive Chase – April 12, 1862|date=April 13, 2012|website=This Week in the Civil War|access-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref>

General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] invaded the town during the [[Atlanta Campaign]] in summer 1864. In November 1864, General [[Hugh Kilpatrick]] set the town ablaze, the first strike in [[Sherman's March to the Sea]].<ref name="mhist"/> Sherman's troops crossed the [[Chattahoochee River]] at a shallow section known as the Palisades, after burning the Marietta Paper Mills near the mouth of [[Sope Creek]].

The [[Marietta Confederate Cemetery]], with the graves of over 3,000 Confederate soldiers killed during the Battle of Atlanta, is located in the city.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Marietta Confederate Cemetery|url=http://www.mariettaconfederatecemetery.org/aboutus.html|publisher=Marietta Confederate Cemetery Foundation and Friends of Brown Park, Inc|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref>