I have always enjoyed visiting the Marietta Confederate Cemetery, which I found well laid out and maintained (I have to say that "crude" is a description that would never come into my mind for that cemetery). Rather than battle casualties from Kennesaw, most of the Kentuckians buried there died in area hospitals from disease, or from wounds suffered at Chickamauga. The Kentucky CS infantry units were not mounted until September 1864, after the Atlanta Campaign (including the battles around Kennesaw Mountain).

Here is a listing of Kentucky soldiers buried in the Marietta Confederate Cemetery, compiled from several sources. Not all could be conclusively identified.

Pvt. William Ackman Co. A 5th Ky. Inf. Died 11/26/1863

G. W. B. 25th Ky.

Pvt. James M. Barlow Co. C 9th Ky. Cav. Died 01/16/1864

Capt. John Calvert Co. E 5th Ky. Inf. Died 10/02/1863

Pvt. I. C. Carmack 6th Ky.

Mus. Thomas H. Covington Co. D 4th Ky. Inf. Died 10/10/1863

Pvt. R. Henry Crone Co. B 1st Ky. Cav. Died 06/03/1864

Sgt. George A. Goor Ky. Died 06/26/1863

Pvt. Levi Gross Co. B 5th Ky. Inf. Died 09/14/1864

Pvt. William H. Harrington Co. I 5th Ky. Inf. Died 02/12/1864

Sgt. J. C. Heath Co. B 7th Ky. Cav. Died 02/18/1864

Lt. Robert James Co. F 2nd Ky. Inf. Died 07/02/1864

Pvt. William F. McCarney Co. F 2nd Ky. Inf. Died 07/02/1864

Lt. Henry Clay McKay Aide Brigade Staff Died 06/ /1864

Dr. W. H. Miller Ky. Died 09/09/1863

Pvt. Green B. Partridge Co. K 4th Ky. Inf. Died 06/02/1864

Pvt. Darius H. Prather Co. G 6th Ky. Inf. Died 12/05/1863

Capt. Thomas J. Scott Co. D 8th Ky. Inf. Died 09/28/1863

List courtesy SCV Gen. Ben Hardin Helm Camp 1703, Elizabethtown, KY; compiled by Geoffrey R. Walden.

Sources: UDC listings of the Marietta and other GA cemeteries; Charles Herbst’s 1873 listing of Kentucky Confederates buried in GA; listings and roster entries in Ed Porter Thompson’s History of the Orphan Brigade (1898); military rosters and service records for Kentucky Confederate units. Name spellings found in KY unit rosters are used.

Notes:

1. G.W.B. remains unidentified. There was no 25th regiment of Kentucky Confederate troops.

2. Carmack, Goor, and Miller are not identified in rosters of Kentucky Confederates. I.C. Carmack could possibly be John Carmack of the 7th Ky. Cav. There is no listing for any soldier named Goor in the index to Confederate service records in the National Archives. There are no G. Gores or Goores in the listing from Kentucky. Dr. Miller was the first burial in the Confederate cemetery, in the Hospital section.

3. Heath is also listed as being buried in the Confederate Cemetery at Resaca, GA.

4. Lt. Henry Clay McKay was on the staff of the First Kentucky “Orphan” Brigade.