In 1866, town resident Mary J. Green and her sister Pyatt Green organized an effort to rebury the Confederate dead, moving them from their crude battlefield burial sites to proper graves in the Resaca Confederate Cemetery. Today, graves of 420 unknown Confederate soldiers are arranged in concentric circles around a large cross. Mrs. E.J. Simmons, a member of one of the committees that worked with Mary Green to establish the cemetery, is buried here. A stone arch tops the cemetery entry gate, and large stately oaks shade the grounds. Confederate Memorial Day services are held here annually.