Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery's Confederate section holds roughly 6,900 burials from Sherman's 1864 campaign against Atlanta, about 3,000 of them unidentified. A dying lion monument, dedicated in 1894 and modeled on a similar memorial in Switzerland, stood watch over the mass grave of the unknown dead until its removal in 2021. According to legend, every November 14 — the anniversary of Atlanta's surrender to Union forces — a disembodied voice can be heard reciting the names of the Confederate soldiers buried there, a phenomenon visitors call the "Roll Call of the Dead." Others report uniformed soldiers wandering the grounds and figures glimpsed in the branches of the cemetery's old trees.