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 The Battle of Ezra Church - The Union Dispositions - Fulton Co., GA Posted by:  Lat34North
N 33° 45.202 W 084° 26.211
16S E 737413 N 3737762
The Battle of Ezra Church - The Union Dispositions historic markers are located at the east end of Mozley Park, on Martin Luther King Dr, Atlanta, GA.
Waymark Code: WM7K81
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2009
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The Battle of Ezra Church July 28, 1864 - The Union Dispositions
The Battle of Ezra Church was the third of three desperate Confederate attacks on the forces of Maj. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, which were closing in on Atlanta. The battle lines formed an irregular V extending southeast from the northwest corner of the happy Haven Nursing Home grounds (Battle Hill Sanitarium), on the Union right, through those grounds and the Frank L. Stanton School grounds, and on across Mozley Drive, at Racine Street, to the intersection of Archer Street and Laurel Avenue. There it turned sharply northeast along old Chapel Road (obliterated save for a few yards north from this site, recrossed Mozley Drive, padded east of Ezra Church (which occupied this site), and crossed the ACL RR west of Chappell Road. The left of the battle line rested some 200 yards north of the railroad. Although heavy fighting occurred here along the Old Chapel Road, and at the strong salient formed by the point of the V, at Archer and Laurel, the most determined Confederate attacks were directed at the right of the Union position, entrenched on Battle Hill, and all along the line extending from the nursing home grounds to the Frank L. Stanton School.
Type of Marker: Park
Marker #: None
Date: None
Sponsor: Georgia Historic Commission - Georgia Civil War Centennial Commission
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