Federal Armies at Adairsville-GHM 008-28
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N 34° 22.016 W 084° 55.565
16S E 690709 N 3804790
US 41 at the cemetery in Adairsville
Waymark Code: WM2E60
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/18/2007
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Text:
May 18, 1864, The 4th, 14th & 20th Corps (Army of the Cumberland) together with the 15th &16th corps (Army of the Tennessee) reached Adairsville from Resaca, at noon.
Sherman convinced that all of Johnston's forces 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 23rd (at Mosteller's Mills, 5 mi. E.) 7 the 20th, were shifted S.W. across the Gravelly Plateau.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 008-28
Date: 1953
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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