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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14AO_hood-avenue_Forest-Park-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/HM149V_iverson-gate_Forest-Park-GA.html
Named in honor of Brig. General Alfred Iverson, Jr., CSA. He became a first lieutenant, First U. S. Cavalry, 1856. In 1861 he resigned commission in U. S. Army and joined the Confederacy as a Colonel. Promoted to Brig. General in November 1862. He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM149I_hardee-hall_Ellenwood-GA.html
Named in honor of Lieut. General William Joseph Hardee (USMA 1838), CSA. A Corps commander during the Atlanta Campaign, he fought a delaying action on Depot site during the retreat. Later, he commanded the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM147X_flankers-road_Forest-Park-GA.html
Commemorating action of General Iverson's cavalrymen of Wheeler's Corps in this vicinity who attempted to protect the railhead of Macon & Western Railroad for retreating Confederate troops after the fall of Atlanta.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13BH_fort-gillem_Forest-Park-GA.html
Named in honor of Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem, Jr.
Enlisted as a Private in the 17th Infantry in 1910 at Ft. McPherson, Georgia and returned after 37 years of service spanning the globe from China and Siberia to Europe and Mexico, to serve as Comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSWI_constantine-memorial_Hampton-GA.html
This is a memorial to Harry S. Dixon and his Fraternity Brothers in Company D, Twenty-Eighth Mississippi Volunteer Calvary, Confederate States of America. Having become members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity in college before the war, they met in an …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSE0_cavalry-action-at-lovejoys-station_Hampton-GA.html
On the night of Nov. 15, 1864, the 3rd Cavalry Division of General Sherman's army [US], which had left Atlanta early that morning on its destructive March to the Sea, camped on the west bank of Flint River near Jonesboro (6 miles N). This division…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS98_the-extended-line_Atlanta-GA.html
The Federals, having lifted siege operations N. & W. of Atlanta Aug. 25, moved on the A. & W.P. R.R. below East Point & by the 29th began its destruction. In an effort to protect the M. & W. (Central of Ga.) R.R., Hardee's A.C. [CS] hastily built …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS97_renfroes-plantation_Riverdale-GA.html
The John Renfroe house, which stood near this crossroads, marked the right flank of Federal troops moving eastward toward the Macon R. R. (Central of Georgia) in August 1864.
It was the converging point of the 15th, 16th, & 17th corps of the Ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRY8_battlefield-landmark_Jonesboro-GA.html
One of few natural landmarks of the battle fought here Aug. 31, 1864, is the deep gully S. of marker — the bed of a small stream flowing W. to Flint River. N. of, & parallel to it, was the refused line of Harrow's div. of the 15th, prolonged…