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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/HM67O_historic-decatur-cemetery_Decatur-GA.html
The oldest known publicly owned burial ground in metro Atlanta, the Decatur Cemetery is believed to predate the city's 1823 incorporation. The first written record is an 1832 act of legislature providing "Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Groun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM656_the-gutzon-borglum-house_Avondale-Est-GA.html
Guzon Borglum, the world famous sculptor of Mt. Rushmore and the first man to work on the Confederate Memorial carving on Stone Mountain, lived in this house from 1924 to 1925. He had begun the Stone Mountain carving in 1923 with his plan that inc…
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/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/HM632_restoring-the-line_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. After Cheatham's troops (CS) broke the Federal 15th A.C. line at the R.R. cut and the Hurt house (DeGress Ave.), Mersy's 16th A.C. brigade was brought up from the battlefield 1 mile S. of the R.R. to assist in restoring it.
Light…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM62N_closing-the-gap_Atlanta-GA.html
July 20, 1864. A critical factor in the alignment of Federal troops moving on Atlanta, from Peachtree Creek valley, was a wide gap between Peachtree Rd. (the left of Thomas' forces) & Schofield's 23d A.C. posted at the intersection of N. Decatur &…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM62L_durands-mill_Atlanta-GA.html
Water-powered sawmill & factory operated in the 1860's by Samuel A. Durand (1822-1891), later on by Frederick A. Williams (1817-1883), whose name long designated the old road leading S.W. and now known, in sections, as Briarcliff and Williams Mill…