The Civil War Gallery here at the Marietta Museum of History is one of the Museum's feature attractions. The room holds replica Civil War uniforms, authentic weapons and ammunition, and medical tools used during the war. Significant items of interest are a Confederate Battle Flag, a Sherman's Hairpin, and Alexander Stephen's lap desk.

Many visitors are surprised to learn that Marietta was the home of a military school known as the Georgia Military Institute. This school was the South's answer to West Point Academy. Some of the soldiers who fought for the Confederate Army were trained right here in Marietta. The exhibit contains a replica uniform and several relics from the site. The GMI was formerly located on the site where the Marietta Conference Center and Resort now stands.

A little-known fact is that there is one African American buried in Marietta's Confederate Cemetery. Mr. Bill Yopp accompanied his landowner and friend Captain Thomas Yopp to the battlefield and was eventually appointed drummer of his regiment. Upon his death in 1937, his last request to be buried in the Confederate Cemetery was fulfilled despite the cultural barriers of the time. The gallery contains a vignette that tells this unusual story.

But perhaps the story told in this gallery that is most unique to the Marietta Museum of History is that of the room itself. The room that houses the Civil War Gallery is the room where "Andrews' Raiders" put together the final details of their mission to inflict damage on Confederate railways. This infamous group of Yankee spies stayed the night in the Kennesaw House the day before they embarked on a mission to steal the steam engine known as "The General." Many movies have been based on the series of events that took place surrounding the actions of the Raiders and the Confederates that
pursued them and recovered the train.