Federal Armies at Adairsville, GA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 34° 22.016 W 084° 55.565
16S E 690708 N 3804790
A part of Sherman's drive to the sea through Georgia.
Waymark Code: WM10TP9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/23/2019
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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.

Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1953

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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