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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IS_headquarters-army-of-tennessee_LaFayette-GA.html
Gen. Braxton Bragg, Comd'g. in this city Sept. 10th to 17th 1863.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IR_john-b-gordon-hall_LaFayette-GA.html
This old academy, built in 1836, was in the line of fire during the Battle of Lafayette in the War Between the States. General Braxton Bragg (CS) who had his headquarters in LaFayette, planned the Battle of Chickamauga under an old oak tree that s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IP_marsh-warthen-house_LaFayette-GA.html
The Marsh-Warthen House, circa 1836, was built by Spencer Stewart Marsh, a prominent and influential merchant and statesman who donated land for JohnB. Gordon Hall. Marsh, with two other businessmen, founded Trion Factory, a major cotton mill. In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IN_the-army-of-tennessee_LaFayette-GA.html
Late in August, 1863, the Army of the Cumberland (US), Maj. Gen. Wm. B. Rosecrans, USA, crossed the Tennessee River near Bridgeport and threatened Chattanooga. On Sept. 7th, learning that Rosecrans was moving toward his rear in the direction of Ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IL_african-american-pioneers-of-the-marsh-warthen-clements-house_LaFayette-GA.html
The Marsh-Warthen-Clements House was hand built by enslaved African Americans in an African cultural style known as the "Shot Gun." Slaves traveled with Marsh from North Carolina and Covington, Georgia to LaFayette. African Americans served in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IK_walker-county_LaFayette-GA.html
Created December 18, 1833, and named for Major Freeman Walker of Augusta, prominent attorney and United States Senator. Here the fierce Chickamaugas preyed upon pioneers, and were in turn defeated and driven away; here Federals and Confederates lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8C0_fort-cumming_LaFayette-GA.html
Here stood a Cherokee Indian stockade with blockhouse on hill, built by U.S. Government in 1836.
Capt. Samuel Fariss and a company of Georgia volunteers guarded Cherokee Indians here before their removal to the west.
This fort was presumably…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7QI_catletts-gap_LaFayette-GA.html
Pigeon Mountain is a rugged spur of Lookout Mountain, extending in a northeasterly direction into Walker County. The space between it and Lookout Mountain is McLemore's Cove. During the war, wagon roads passed from east to west through the mountai…