Marietta winds up Civil War commemoration

Marietta will wrap up a year of Civil War Sesquicentennial events Saturday with a special-effects production remembering the burning of the city by Union troops in 1864. A Civil War Festival 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday on the Marietta Square also includes Lincoln and Sherman reenactors, Civil War era music and game, and a recounting of life in Marietta during and after the war. City Manager Bill Bruton said the 150th events marked a pivotal time in the city and country’s history. “This is important to us as a community,” Bruton said. You can’t move forward if you don’t know where you’ve been.”