John Pemberton who invented Coca-Cola", is chosen as one of the few people allowed to leave the city of Atlanta, just before it sinks into the Atlantic Ocean. In 2010, the Coca-Cola Company paid tribute to Pemberton as a key character in an advertising campaign called "Secret Formula". Centered on the secret ingredients of Coca-Cola, imagery related to Pemberton was used to make people more aware of Coke's history and mythology. In 2013, Pemberton was portrayed by Bill Hader in the "Atlanta" episode of Comedy Central's "Drunk History", created by Derek Waters. Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers have an album track
John C. Pemberton his capture. After the war, Pemberton lived on his farm near Warrenton, Virginia, from 1866 to 1876. His mother Rebecca Clifford Pemberton (1782–1869) had survived her husband John Pemberton (1783–1847) by more than two decades, and a few years after her death Pemberton returned to Pennsylvania. Pemberton died in Lower Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on July 13, 1881, although his widow Martha Thompson Pemberton would survive until 1907. The families of several famous people, including General George Meade and Admiral John A. Dahlgren (whose brother also served as a Confederate General), protested against the unrepentant Confederate Pemberton's burial at