The Battles for Atlanta-GHS 51-8-Fulton Co
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Sprinterman
N 33° 46.021 W 084° 21.325
16S E 744919 N 3739466
Carter Presidential Center parking lot
Waymark Code: WMC87Y
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/07/2011
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Between July and Sept. 1864, during the American Civil War, U.S. and Confederate armies struggled for control of Atlanta, the major manufacturing center and railroad hub of the Deep South. Four inconclusive battles occurred inside the present-day I-285 perimeter: Peachtree Creek (July 20), Atlanta (July 22, fought in part in the area of this marker), Ezra Church (July 28); and Utoy Creek (August 6). Unwilling to attack the city’s strong defenses, U.S. forces swept west and then south and at Jonesboro (Aug. 31- Sept. 1) cut the last railroad supplying Atlanta, forcing the Confederates to abandon the city. The fall of Atlanta on Sept. 2, 1864, assured the re-election of Abraham Lincoln and the final defeat of the Confederacy.
Erected for the Civil War 150 commemoration by the Georgia Historical Society, the Georgia Battlefields Association and the Georgia Department of Economic Development
2010.5 51-8
Notes:
The marker is numbered incorrectly, it should be 60-8
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: Should be 60-8
Date: 2010.5
Sponsor: Erected for the Civil War 150 commemoration by the Georgia Historical Society, the Georgia Battlefields Association and the Georgia Department of Economic Development
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