5th Indiana Battery
Acting chief of artillery for the 1st Division (4th Army Corps), Simonson on June 16, 1864 was busy entrenching here a 4-gun battery of artillery when he was killed by a Confederate bullet. The Confederate was perhaps a sharpshooter armed with an English made rifle with scope known as a Whitworth. The Whitworth fired a six sided bullet that could kill a target one-half mile away. However, the two armies were within a few hundred feet of each other at this point, so it is not unreasonable to believe he could have been killed by a common Confederate rifleman.| HM Number | HM7AP |
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| Tags | |
| Year Placed | 2008 |
| Placed By | Cobb County Community Development Department |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Friday, October 10th, 2014 at 8:27am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16S E 717727 N 3762114 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 33.97705000, -84.64320000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 33° 58.623', W 84° 38.592' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 33° 58' 37.38" N, 84° 38' 35.52" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 678, 404, 770 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 866-950 Frank Kirk Rd, Kennesaw GA 30152, US |
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