Battlefield Landmark - GHM 031-27 - Clayton Co., GA
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Battlefield Landmark state historic marker located on the west side of US 41 between Robert E Lee Parkway & Dixon Rd.
Waymark Code: WM40N9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/19/2008
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Battlefield Landmark
One of the few natural landmarks of the battle fought here Aug. 31, 1864, is the deep gully S. of marker -- the bed of a small stream flowing W. to Flint River. N. of, & parallel to it was the refused line of Harrow's div. of the 15th, prolonged by Rice's brigade (Corse's div.), 16th A.C. (USA) facing S. & extending W. to the river. Cleburne's, Maney's & Bate's divs., Hardee's A.C. (CSA) attacked the refused line from south of the gully, only to find it a fatal obstacle to a concerted assault on the intrenched [sic] lines & artillery of Harrow & Rice. Hardee's attack was the signal for advance of S.D. Lee's A.C. on the 15th corps front facing Jonesboro.
GHM 031-27 Georgia Historical Commission 1958