Cleburne's & Maney's Divs-GHM 044-62-DeKalb Co
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N 33° 44.052 W 084° 20.422
16S E 746407 N 3735862
Flat Shoals at Ormewood Ave (S of Glenwood), East Atlanta
Waymark Code: WM6XNM
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2009
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July 22, 1864. These troops, with Walker´s and Bate´s divs., Hardee´s A.C. [CSA] made a 15-mi. night march from Atlanta to attack the rear of McPherson´s Army of the Tenn. [USA] posted on Flat Shoals Road in East Atlanta. Cleburne´s & Maney´s move N.W. up Flat Shoals Rd. struck, not the rear but the left flank, of the Fed. 17th A.C. where its line bent eastward.
Cleburne´s four brigades were deployed on & eastward of the road; Maney´s four brigades, W. of it. The immediate area was heavily wooded. Their attack was made somewhat later than Walker´s and Bate´s, 1 mile E. in the valley of Sugar Creek near Terry´s Mill Pond
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 044-62
Date: 1956
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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