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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM69X_4th-a-c-at-durands-mill_Atlanta-GA.html
July 19, 1864. In deployment of Federal forces approaching Atlanta, it became necessary to fill a gap between those on Peachtree Rd. at the creek & Schofield's 23d A.C. on Pea Vine Cr. at the Paden plantation (Emory University). Sherman directed T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67R_fort-peachtree-war-of-1812_Atlanta-GA.html
One of a line of forts hastily constructed during the War of 1812 to control the Creek Indians who were in alliance with the British, of the Chattahoochee River and Peachtree Creek, and overlooked the Creek trading-post town of Standing Peachtree.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM64W_isoms-ferry_Atlanta-GA.html
Chattahoochee River, at mouth of Soap Cr., .75 mi. N.W., operated in the 1860`s by James Isom. Federal Army records cite it variously as Isham's Ford or Fy., Phillip's Fy., Cavalry Fd. The first of the Federal troops to pass the river was Cox`s di…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM64O_cleburnes-maneys-divs_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. These troops, with Walker's and Bate's divs., Hardee's A.C. (CS) made a 15-mi. night march from Atlanta to attack the rear of McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US) posted on Flat Shoals Road in East Atlanta. Cleburne's & Maney's move N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM64K_death-of-general-walker_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Maj. Gen. W.H.T. Walker, commanding a div. of Hardee's A.C., (CS) while directing his troops toward the battlefield, reached a close proximity to this spot at noon where, pausing to reconnoiter the area, he was shot from horse by a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63X_cheathams-salient_Atlanta-GA.html
At this point, Atlanta's outer defense line, beginning at Casey's Hill 5.75 W., turned S. & parallel to Highland Ave., ran to the Ga. R.R. This angle was occupied July 18, 1864, by Stevenson's div. Cheatham A.C. (CS) (Hood's old command).July 19, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63E_cleburne-outflanked-left-wing-17th-a-c_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. The left wing (Giles Smith's div., 17th A.C.) of McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US) occupied an intrenched line on Flat Shoals Rd. between Leggett's Hill & Glenwood, where it hooked eastward, facing to the south.
Gen. P.R. Clebur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63C_cleburnes-div-in-the-federal-rear_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Cleburne's 3 brigades, (CS) after over-running the Federal left (at Glenwood), moved on the rear of its line facing W. on Flat Shoals Rd., at the same time Maney's div. (CS) attached its front. Beset on both sides Giles Smith's 17th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM639_leggetts-hill_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Blair's 17th A.C., McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US) was aligned S. of Logan's 15th astride the Ga. R.R. Leggett's div. of the 17th held the line from Logan's left, to & including the hill. An extension S.E. on Flat Shoals Rd. to G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM633_wheelers-cav-intrenched_Atlanta-GA.html
July 20, 1864. Wheeler's thin gray line of dismounted cavalry (CS) was the rt. Flank of Atlanta's defenders. Forced W. from Clay St. in the afternoon by Blair's 17th A.C., (US) Wheeler's line ran S. from the Ga. R.R. to this hill.
July 21. Befo…