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    FRONT YARD WAR

    Jul 23, 2019 5 minutes
    With John Banks

    FROM THE PORCH OF her late–20th century log house on the Resaca battlefield, Melea Medders Tennant admires tall pines and oaks, dogwoods, and rolling hills. She often hears a roar nearby of trains that follow the same line the Western & Atlantic Railroad did during the Civil War. “I feel like I am so attached to this place,” she says about the hallowed ground where Union and Confederate armies clashed on May 13-15, 1864. “It’s part of me.”

    Tennant’s roots run deep in this rural area in northwestern Georgia: About the Great Depression, her grandfather Thurman Chitwood exchanged bales of cotton for acreage that comprised much of the battlefield. For decades, members of her extended family farmed the property, growing cotton, corn, and soybeans.

    The Civil War touches Tennant’s family deeply, too. Her great-great-grandfather Daniel Chitwood served as a private in Company A of the

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