Federal Armies at Adairsville, GA - Battlefields on Waymarking.com

County of memorial: Bartow County
Location marker: Poplar Springs Rd & Joe Frank Harris Parkway (US-41) & Cass St., near cemetery, Adairsville
Erected By: Georgia Historical Commission
Date Erected: 1953

Marker Text:

FEDERAL ARMIES
AT ADAIRSVILLE May 18, 1864. The 4th, 14th & 20th Corps (Army of the Cumberland) [USA], together with the 15th & 16th corps (Army of the Tennessee) [USA], reached Adairsville, from Resaca, at noon.

Sherman convinced that all of Johnston's forces [CSA] had gone to Kingston & Etowah River crossings S. of it, directed his forces to converge there.

McPherson's Army of the Tennessee moved to Barnsley's; the 4th and 14th by direct road to Kingston; the 23d [USA] (at Mosteller's Mills, 5 mi. E.) & the 20th, were shifted S.W. across the Gravelly Plateau.

Name of Battle: Gen Sherman's March Through Georgia Name of War: American Civil War Entrance Fee: 0.00 (listed in local currency) Date(s) of Battle (Beginning): 05/18/1864 Date of Battle (End): 05/18/1864 Parking: Not Listed

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