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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25DP_georgia-militia-at-lovejoys-station_Hampton-GA.html
On Oct. 12, 1864, Maj. Gen. G.W. Smith, CSA (Street Commissioner, New York City, 1858-1861), assembled a force of militia at Lovejoy's Station (0.5 miles NE) to support Iverson's division of Wheeler's cavalry corps., which was picketing the roads …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVV_kilpatricks-raid-at-the-nash-farm_Hampton-GA.html
As the last of Minty's skirmishers withdrew, Kilpatrick and Eli Murray realign King's 3rd and 5th Kentucky to confront the quiescent Confederate infantry. At the other end of the field, facing the opposite direction, Fielder Jones' brigade, Captai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVS_the-right-flank-on-the-mcdonough-road_Hampton-GA.html
After Hardee's & Lee's Confederate forces lose the first day's battle at Jonesboro on August 31, 1864, Confederate Lt. General John Bell Hood, inside the fortifications of Atlanta, realizes that the last remaining railroad line that supplied Atlan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVH_the-old-bronze-gentleman-of-lovejoys-station_Hampton-GA.html
At first light of August 20, 1864, Confederate General Sul Ross's Texas Cavalry had located Kilpatrick's retreating Federals near Lee's Mill and fought their rear guard as they took the road that led southward to the McDonough Road. This road took…
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The highlight of Ed Waterhouse's railroad career came in 1892 when he was assigned as engineer of the "Nancy Hanks," the South's first non-stop steamliner, and the pride of the Central of Georgia railroad. Running between Atlanta and Savannah, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUY_the-crawford-dorsey-house_Hampton-GA.html
Men such as Stephen Green Dorsey represented the peak of the planter class as it existed in this locality. His father moved into what became Clayton County and built a two story log cabin shortly after the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1821 opened t…
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/HM6C3_kilpatricks-raid_Hampton-GA.html
After the failed McCook and Stoneman raids, Union Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman mounted one last effort to cut Atlanta's railroads with his cavalry. Just before dark, August 18, 1864, Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick led 4,500 troupers of the 2nd and 3rd Ca…