{"id":350,"date":"2009-06-18T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-06-16T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:22:44","slug":"kennesaw-battlefield-gains-new-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/18\/kennesaw-battlefield-gains-new-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennesaw Battlefield Gains New Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/kemo_2cannon-n-earthworks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-351\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/kemo_2cannon-n-earthworks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/kemo_2cannon-n-earthworks.jpg 375w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/kemo_2cannon-n-earthworks-300x80.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From late June to early July of 1864, a fierce battle raged between Johnston and Sherman&#8217;s armies.\u00a0 This battle was fought around quiet Kennesaw Mountain. Last February, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/kemo\/historyculture\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the National Park Service<\/a> gained a key piece of land on which this battle was raged.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/services\/content\/printedition\/2008\/02\/21\/park0221nw.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a> informed readers that Sam Hensley recently sold 35 of his 70 acres to the Trust for Public Land.\u00a0 In turn, the National Park Service gained this valuable land.\u00a0 Hensley had moved onto the land in 1957 and quietly expanded his private property.\u00a0 After the death of his wife in 2003, Hensley decided that he wanted to be sure that the land was preserved after his death.\u00a0 Therefore, he sold his land for $3.5 million, nowhere near the estimated commercial value of the property.\u00a0 Luckily, the National Park Service won in the endless battle to preserve our nation&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From late June to early July of 1864, a fierce battle raged between Johnston and Sherman&#8217;s armies.\u00a0 This battle was fought around quiet Kennesaw Mountain. Last February, the National Park Service gained a key piece of land on which this battle was raged.\u00a0 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution informed readers that Sam Hensley recently sold 35 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,47,81],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-places-to-visit","category-recent-news","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}