Green Plantation - Marietta, GA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 33° 57.143 W 084° 39.774
16S E 715969 N 3759337
Today just looks like a house along side the hwy...then look a second time....
Waymark Code: WM10QW7
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/13/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member iconions
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County of site: Cobb County
Location of site: GA 120 between Old Hamilton Rd.and Bob Flemming Rd., W. of Marietta
Marker on site erected: 1963
Marker erected by: Georgia Historical Commission

Memorial Text:

GREEN PLANTATION
Polk's Corps [CSA] having held the sector centering on Lost Mountain, June 5-9, was withdrawn E., leaving Gen. W.H. Jackson's Cav. Div. [CSA] to hold the vacated line.

On the 17th, Johnston [CSA] shifted his left flank E. to Mud Creek; during this withdrawal, Ross' Brigade [CSA] of Jackson's Cav. fought a spirited action from the hill W. of the Widow (Piety M.) Green house, which was used as a hospital.

Ross' Texas Brigade held the position until forced to retreat by Hascall's (2d) Div., 23d Corps [USA], which had seized Lost Mountain that morning.

Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1963

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Georgia Historical Commission

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Other or General Civil War

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