Thousands of Confederate soldiers are buried here – rank upon rank of them. Most of them were killed during the 1864 Battle of Atlanta, fought within sight of this cemetery. I found a fallen grave marker, bearing the name of a soldier named Ross, broken off at the base and resting in the dirt. It symbolizes the most important cost of the American Civil War -- or for that matter any war – the loss of an entire generation. Military graves fill this image, lending context to this broken marker. While the other markers may be upright, those stones ultimately symbolize the fallen as well.