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Battle of Peach Tree Creek. Loring's Attack. At 4:30 p.m. on July 20, 1864, 2,700 Confederate soldiers in two brigades of Major General William W Loring's division attacked the Federal '20th Corps, aligned north of Collier Road. "The enemy was in plain view…
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Battle of Ezra Church. Hood's Third Attack. After General John Bell Hood took command of the the army defending Atlanta he directed three Confederate failed attacks against Union Major General William T. Sherman's armies. On July 28, 1864, Union Major Gene…
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Fort Walker. Lemuel Grant's Perimeter "Line of Defenses". This earthen fortification is one of the few remaining traces, of a ring of entrenchments that encircled Atlanta during the summer of 1864. The Atlanta City Council voted on May 22, 1863 to ask Confe…
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Peach Tree Creek Crossing. Newton Protects Thomas's Left Flank. The new commander of the Army of Tennessee, Confederate General John B. Hood, hoped to destroy one of Union General William T. Sherman's three armies as it crossed Peach Tree Creek. Hood's tar…
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The Hardman Family Cemetery is one of the oldest landmarks in DeKalb County and among the last vestiges of its early settlement. Both white settlers and enslaved African Americans were buried here. Nearby ran the Shallowford Indian Trail, a trade route from…
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Old Dekalb County Courthouse. "I had no doubt of my ability to hold the courthouse..." . Five DeKalb County courthouses have been erected here in the center of Decatur since 1823. The third courthouse structure, between 1847 and 1898, was where DeKalb Count…
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Georgia Railroad Freight Depot. An Enduring Symbol of Atlanta. This building, completed in 1869 and renovated in 1981, stands on the site of the first Georgia Railroad Freight Depot, one of the major railroad structures in downtown Atlanta during the Civil …
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McFarland's Gap. The Battle of Chickamauga Ends in Retreat. By nightfall on Sunday, September 20, 1863, more than two-thirds of the surviving Federal "Army of the Cumberland" had retreated from the Chickamauga battlefield through this narrow gap i…
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Davis' Cross Roads. A Squandered Opportunity. As Union Major General William S. Rosecrans' "Army of the Cumberland" entered Georgia in early September 1863, its three infantry corps were dangerously divided over a fifty mile radius. Most endangere…
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Lee & Gordon's Mills became a familiar landmark for Federal and Confederate soldiers before and during the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. It is located along West Chickamauga Creek on the vital "State Road" between Chattanooga and La Fayette.…