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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N1M_the-foot-bridge_Cartersville-GA.html
At this point, a crude wooden bridge spanned the cut about 90 feet above the railroad tracks. It was constructed by felling two pine trees across the cut, planking over them and adding a hand rail. During the battle, Private Edwin R. Fullington of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N1K_grave-of-the-unknown-hero_Cartersville-GA.html
Local families once recalled a few days after the battle, a wooden box addressed "Allatoona, Georgia" arrived at the station with no information as to its origin. Six local women found a deceased Confederate soldier in the box and buried him along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N1J_assault-on-the-star-fort_Cartersville-GA.html
By 11:00 a.m., after overrunning Rowett´s Redoubt , Confederate attack swept up his hill and the west and the north, forcing the Federals to retreat inside the Star Fort. As the last of the fleeing Federals entered the fort, a three-inch ordnance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N1I_confederate-withdrawal_Cartersville-GA.html
"A shout trying to roll over those fields ... men grasp hands and shouted ... and embraced each other. The wounded joined in the delirium of rejoice. The dying looked to the flag, still proudly floating above the hills..." History the 93rd Illinoi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0I_confederate-memorial-cassville-cemetery_Cartersville-GA.html
Front:
Dedicated to the
memory of
our Southern heroes
by the Ladies
Memorial Association
of Cassville
AD 1878.
Right:
Is it death to fall for
Freedom's Cause.
Left:
Rest in peace our own
Southern braves,
you loved liberty more
t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0G_wartime-allatoona_Cartersville-GA.html
In 1866, George N. Bernard photographed Allatoona looking north from approximately the same location is this marker. The Western & Atlantic Railroad from Atlanta to Chattanooga penetrated the Allatoona Mountain range at this point through a 175 fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0F_welcome-to-allatoona-pass-battlefield_Cartersville-GA.html
The Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, Redtop Mountain State Park, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, and the Etowah Valley Historic Society welcome you to Allatoona Pass Battlefield. We h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0E_the-battle-of-allatoona-pass_Cartersville-GA.html
Allatoona Pass is the site of significant and bloody Civil War battles that took place after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864. With no city to defend, the Confederate Army treated from Atlanta in 1864. With no city to defend, the Confederate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0D_demand-for-surrender_Cartersville-GA.html
On the morning of October 5, 1864, following a two hour bombardment from Major John D. Myrick´s Confederate artillery on Moore´s he´ll located 1,200 yards to the south, Confederate Major General Samuel G. French sent his adjutant, Major David W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0C_the-railroad_Cartersville-GA.html
Chartered by the state of Georgia in 1837, workmen completed the Western & Atlantic Railroad in 1850 over a winding 137-mile route from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee. At Allatoona, massive quantities of earth and stone were removed t…