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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88U_position-of-the-monitors_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
The monitors took positions against the far marsh in the direction of the arrow, between 900 and 1200 yards from the fort during the following series of attacks: by the MONTAUK, January 27, February 1, and February 28, 1863; and by the PASSAIC, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88T_columbiad_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
This replica of a coast defense cannon known as the columbiad was manufactured, 1964, by Savannah Machine and Foundry Company as a public service. A similar cannon was positioned here during Union naval attacks, 1863. The columbiad fired 87-lb. sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87N_capt-john-mccrady_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Charlestonian, a student of Agassiz at Harvard, then professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston, he resigned his position at the outbreak of the war and became an officer in the Confederate engineers. Transferred to Savannah he spent hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7E4_destruction-of-the-c-s-s-nashville_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
The swift Confederate blockade runner Nashville ( renamed Rattlesnake) was destroyedby the monitor Montauk, February 28, 1863, after she went aground on a sandbar in a hairpin bendof the Ogeechee River. The engagement was a three- waybattle with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM783_hardwicke_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
This site on the Great Ogeechee, 14 miles from the Atlantic, was selected in 1755 by Governor John Reynolds for the capital of Georgia. He named it for his kinsman, Lord High Chancellor of England, Phillip Yorke Hardwicke. Reynolds said: "Hardwick…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5SQ_kings-bridge_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Dec. 1864. After a 300 mile march which had left a wide belt of destruction from "Atlanta to the Sea," Gen. Sherman's army (USA) of about 60,000 men was nearing Savannah. During he first weeks of his campaign, his four widely-spread columns had fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5A0_fort-mcallister_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
Situated at Genesis Point, 10 miles east on the right bank of the Great Ogeechee River below the "lost town" of Hardwick, this fort was the right of the exterior line designed for the defense of Savannah. It denied the use of the river to Union ve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM59H_battle-of-brices-cross-roads_Richmond-Hill-MS.html
When General Sherman advanced on Atlanta, General Forrest sought to destroy the Union supply line between Nashville and Chattanooga. He had nearly reached the Tennessee River when he had to turn back to meet a Union force marching southeast from M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM59G_dead-town-of-hardwicke_Richmond-Hill-GA.html
On May 10, 1754 GEORGE TOWN was established at the "Elbow" of Great Ogeechee River, eight miles east. In February, 1755, Gov. Reynolds, dissatisfied with Savannah as a capital and as a port, chose this new site because it has a charming situation,…
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