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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM633_wheelers-cav-intrenched_Atlanta-GA.html
July 20, 1864. Wheeler's thin gray line of dismounted cavalry (CS) was the rt. Flank of Atlanta's defenders. Forced W. from Clay St. in the afternoon by Blair's 17th A.C., (US) Wheeler's line ran S. from the Ga. R.R. to this hill.
July 21. Befo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM62Z_the-degress-battery_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Light Battery H, 1st Ill. (four 20-pounders), Capth. Francis DeGress, was posted here on right of M.L.Smith's div., Logan's 15th A.C. Shells from these guns are said to have been the first to fall in Atlanta.
Late afternoon, Mani…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM62Y_federal-signal-station_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. When 15th A.C. troops moved W. from line (at Candler St.) to the vacated Confederate line at the Troup Hurt house (at DeGress Ave.), a signal station was established by Lt. Samuel Edge in a tall pine near this site commanding a view…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5U4_roswell-presbyterian-church_Roswell-GA.html
In 1839, 15 Presbyterian men and women, 'members of the colony' of Roswell, invited the Rev. Nathaniel A. Pratt, D.D., of Darien, to organize the first Presbyterian church of Roswell. These charter members included the Bulloch, Dunwody, Hand, King…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OU_whittier-cotton-mill-and-village_Atlanta-GA.html
Whittier Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts opened a new Atlanta factory on this site in 1896. Development of the mill complex included the construction of Whittier Mill Village, a mill-centered residential community for workers and their famil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MN_the-troup-hurt-house_Atlanta-GA.html
The Plantation house of Geo. M.T. Hurt, begun the Summer of 1862, never completed & never occupied as a residence, stood on the site of the stone church. It faced the Decatur Rd. July 18, 1864. A sector of the outer line of Atlanta's defense works…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5MM_the-15th-corps-sector_Atlanta-GA.html
July 20, 1864. Posted on this ridge, astride the Georgia R.R. was the right flank of Hood's old corps, (CS) Gen. B.F. Cheatham commanding. July 22. These troops were withdrawn, before daylight, to the city fortifications. The vacated line was occu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ML_site-the-pope-house_Atlanta-GA.html
Opposite to & N. of here was a 2-story white house (said to have been the residence of the Widow Pope) which figured prominently in this sector of the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864.As Manigault's brigade moved to the assault on the Federal line…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ME_historic-utoy-church_Atlanta-GA.html
Utoy Primitive Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist Church in present Fulton County, was constituted August 15, 1824, in a log house just west of here. The church was moved to its present location in the summer of 1828.
In 1864 the church was use…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5LB_the-embattled-ridge_Atlanta-GA.html
Aug 6, 1864. The ridge just S. (densely wooded at the time) was fortified & held by Gen. W. B. Bate's div., Hardee's A.C. (CSA). It extended west from the Atlanta to East Point works, & blocked further Federal moves toward the railroads.
To eli…