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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KW2_to-our-confederate-soldiers_LaFayette-GA.html
Front Side:
1861-1865
Erected 1909.
By the
Chickamauga Chapter of
The United Daughters
of the Confederacy,
to the
Confederate Soldiers,
of Walker County.
——
"It is a duty we owe
to posterity, to see
that our children
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K8X_the-marsh-house_LaFayette-GA.html
The Marsh House was built by Spencer Stewart Marsh about 1836. Mr. Marsh was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, on November 25, 1799, and was the son of William Marsh, a soldier in the American Revolution for whom the local William Marsh chap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K8W_chattooga-academy_LaFayette-GA.html
Chattooga Academy served as Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's headquarters from September 10-17, 1863. Bragg reportedly prepared for the Battle of Chickamauga under a large oak tree in front of the building; the tree, later known as Bragg's Oak, wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM131X_mcphersons-army-at-snake-creek-gap_LaFayette-GA.html
A narrow, 3 mi. passage between two ridges, beginning 1 mi. S. of this marker & ending at the fork of Sugar valley & Resaca roads.
May 8, 1864. While Geary's Div. (20th A.C. [US]) stormed Rocky Face Ridge at Dug Gap, 5 mi N.E., McPherson's Arm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9C0_chattooga-academy_LaFayette-GA.html
National Register of Historic Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM911_villanow_LaFayette-GA.html
Ante-bellum cross-roads settlement; name taken from Jane Porter's novel: 'Thaddeus of Warsaw.' May 7, 1864, Kilpatrick's Cav., having crossed Taylor's Ridge at Nickajack Gap, moved to Gordon's Springs where it was joined by Ireland's brigade (Gear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM90Y_west-armuchee-valley_LaFayette-GA.html
Southward for several miles is the pleasant little valley of W. Armuchee Creek; Dick Ridge on the E.; Taylor's Ridge on the W.
Situated 3 mi. S. are Old Shiloh Ch. & the Wm. Little res. - where Maj. Gen. John B. Hood was taken from the field of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM90O_general-lafayette_LaFayette-GA.html
Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834) was born in the Castle of Chavagnac, in Auvergne, France. He entered the French Army early in life and in 1777 came to America and volunteered for service in the Revolutiona…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM90N_ships-gap_LaFayette-GA.html
May 7, 1864. Col. J.W. Sprague's (2nd) brigade, Veatch's (4th) Div., 16th A.C., having camped with the corps on the little Chickamauga (near Catlett 4 mi. N.), pushed forward in a surprise move and seized this gap in Taylor's Ridge at 9p.m.
Thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IT_the-battle-of-lafayette_LaFayette-GA.html
On June 18, 1864, during Gen. Sherman's campaign for Atlanta, Col. Louis D. Watkins, commanding the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (US), occupied LaFayette with about 450 men of the 4th, 6th and 7th Kentucky cavalry regiments (US) "to endeavor …