About half of an enormous panoramic painting depicting the Civil War Battle of Atlanta has been moved to a new exhibit hall as workers continued to move the rest of the painting Friday.
Historians hailed the delicate, painstaking move as a milestone for the nearly 6-ton Cyclorama — one of the world’s largest paintings — which was being moved in two sections from the city’s Grant Park to the Atlanta History Center.
“The Battle of Atlanta is one of the crucial moments in the campaign that really determined the outcome of the war,” said Gordon Jones, a military historian and curator at the history center. “What happened here in Atlanta is absolutely critical to the outcome of the country we know today.”
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