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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25DP_georgia-militia-at-lovejoys-station_Hampton-GA.html
On Oct. 12, 1864, Maj. Gen. G.W. Smith, CSA (Street Commissioner, New York City, 1858-1861), assembled a force of militia at Lovejoy's Station (0.5 miles NE) to support Iverson's division of Wheeler's cavalry corps., which was picketing the roads …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y4D_battle-of-jonesborough_Jonesboro-GA.html
On Friday, August 19, 1864, 4,400 Federal cavalrymen under General H. Brigadier Judson Kilpatrick galloped into Jonesborough (Jonesboro). An Illinois trooper described the town as "a row of stores, dwellings and shops on each side of the railroad,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y4B_patrick-cleburne-confederate-cemetery_Jonesboro-GA.html
Located near the center of fighting on the second day of the Battle Jonesborough (Jonesboro), the final major battle of the Atlanta Campaign, this cemetery contains the graves of up to 1,000 Confederate soldiers killed while fighting here on Augus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ER2_unknown-confederate-soldiers-memorial_Jonesboro-GA.html
To the honored memory ofthe several hundred unknownConfederate Soldiers reposingwithin this enclosure who fellat the Battle of JonesboroAugust 31-September 1, 1864These soldiers were of Hardee's Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUY_the-crawford-dorsey-house_Hampton-GA.html
Men such as Stephen Green Dorsey represented the peak of the planter class as it existed in this locality. His father moved into what became Clayton County and built a two story log cabin shortly after the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1821 opened t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DP_site-the-mann-house_Atlanta-GA.html
Some 400 ft. S. on this ridge stood the antebellum farm house of John A. Mann (1828-1904). It is cited in reports & dispatches of the movement of the 4th A. C. [US] from Red Oak to the Macon R. R. at Rough & Ready. Aug. 30, 1864, the 4th A. C.,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14DE_bairds-div-14th-a-c_Atlanta-GA.html
Aug. 30, 1864. Davis' 14th A. C. [US], having moved from Red Oak to Shoal Creek Ch., was divided into 2 columns when marching therefrom to the Fayetteville Rd. (Highway 139). Morgan's & Carlin's divs. went S. E. by a winding road to the Evans farm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14CH_wheeler-drive_Ellenwood-GA.html
Named in honor of Maj. General Joseph Wheeler (USMA 1859), commander of the 2nd Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee, CSA. A renowned raider, he guarded the flanks of the Confederate Army, with headquarters near present Depot site, covering the Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14C3_hood-avenue_Ellenwood-GA.html
Named in honor of General John Bell Hood (USMA 1853), who was a Lieut. General in command of the 2nd Corps, Army of Tennessee, CSA, during Atlanta Campaign in 1864. He succeeded General Joseph E. Johnston as commanding general of Confederate force…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14B5_mcintosh-gate_Ellenwood-GA.html
Named in honor of Brig. General William McIntosh, U.S. Army. Chief of the Coweta Tribe of the Creek Nation, he negotiated a treaty ceding this territory to the United States, which included the land on which the Depot now stands. The son of a Scot…
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