United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.387981708/2022Cemeteries are an important resource in heritage education for helping people to develop a stronger sense of both history and place. Heritage education, an outgrowth of the historic preservation movement of the 1960s, relies on such physical relics as gravestones, documents, photographs, and other artifacts to encourage a greater understanding of the past.Photograph of a gravestone marking the burial site of Captain James W. Fulkerson, CSA. This stone lies in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. The gravestone is a simple white marker with a curved top. It reads, "Captain James W. Fulkerson. Company C. 29th [illegible] Tenn. Vol. Born in Claiborne Co. Tenn. Died in Atlanta, Ga. of wounds received at Missionary Ridge Jan 3rd, 1864. Aged 25 Years."image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/heritage-educationForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/heritage-educationForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaSepulchral monuments--Georgia--AtlantaCemeteries--Georgia--AtlantaConfederate States of America. Army--OfficersFulkerson, James W., d. 1864--TombSoldiers' bodies, Disposition of--Georgia--AtlantaFulkerson, James W., d. 1864GravestoneStillImage