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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MT_noon-under-the-trees_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Gen. McPerson & staff spent the forenoon in conference at Sherman's headquarters & inspecting Army of the Tenn. lines. Noon found them in an oak grove just S. of the R.R. where they were joined at luncheon by Logan & Blair, each wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MR_battle-of-atlanta-began-here_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Sweeny's 2nd. div., Dodge's 16th A.C. (US), having been held in reserve N. of the Ga. R.R. (Candler Park), was ordered to support the left wing of Blair's 17th Corps in East Atlanta. Marching via Clay Rd., Sweeny's column halted her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MO_the-march-to-decatur_Atlanta-GA.html
McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US), consisting of the 15th, 16th, & 17th corps, having crossed the river at Roswell, made a wide swing S.E. to cut the Georgia R.R. at & E. of Decatur.
Logan's 15th A.C. was the extreme left; posted at Browning C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MN_the-troup-hurt-house_Atlanta-GA.html
The Plantation house of Geo. M.T. Hurt, begun the Summer of 1862, never completed & never occupied as a residence, stood on the site of the stone church. It faced the Decatur Rd. July 18, 1864. A sector of the outer line of Atlanta's defense works…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MM_the-15th-corps-sector_Atlanta-GA.html
July 20, 1864. Posted on this ridge, astride the Georgia R.R. was the right flank of Hood's old corps, (CS) Gen. B.F. Cheatham commanding. July 22. These troops were withdrawn, before daylight, to the city fortifications. The vacated line was occu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ML_site-the-pope-house_Atlanta-GA.html
Opposite to & N. of here was a 2-story white house (said to have been the residence of the Widow Pope) which figured prominently in this sector of the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864.As Manigault's brigade moved to the assault on the Federal line…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ME_historic-utoy-church_Atlanta-GA.html
Utoy Primitive Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist Church in present Fulton County, was constituted August 15, 1824, in a log house just west of here. The church was moved to its present location in the summer of 1828.
In 1864 the church was use…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LB_the-embattled-ridge_Atlanta-GA.html
Aug 6, 1864. The ridge just S. (densely wooded at the time) was fortified & held by Gen. W. B. Bate's div., Hardee's A.C. (CSA). It extended west from the Atlanta to East Point works, & blocked further Federal moves toward the railroads.
To eli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5JD_logans-15th-blairs-17th-a-c-to-decatur_Atlanta-GA.html
July 19, 1864. Logan's troops, in "light fighting order" left camp at Henderson's mill (0.8 mile N.E.), at 5 A.M. & marched to Decatur. They were joined at this point by Blair's corps which had camped at Blake's Mill, 2 miles west.
Both corps, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5JB_dodges-blairs-columns-separate_Atlanta-GA.html
July 19th, 1864. Blair's 17th A.C. followed by Dodge's 16th (US), having camped near Blake's Mill, 6 mi. N. on the old Shallow Ford Rd. the night before, moved S. to this point where their lines of march diverged.Dodge's troops continued S. on rds…