One of the Confederacy's last battlefield triumphs was over. All around Kennesaw Mountain, weary young men in butternut had held off Sherman's better armed soldiers before the Union's march on to Atlanta. Now, at CSA Gen. Joseph Johnston's command near the signal post tree, the men were tearing up floorboards to build coffins. In the din, no one noticed a canteen that went missing ... Maybe that's what happened. Or did it go something like this? The war had been over for five years. The former soldier, looking to feed his family, hired on to help rebuild the house by the old signal post tree, one of many that Sherman had burned as his soldiers left Kennesaw Mountain. The site of Johnston's former headquarters was the first Marietta home rebuilt after the war. The vet was so glad to have work, he didn't remember setting his canteen down ...