Confederate Main Line of Resistance - Spanish Fort, AL
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N 30° 40.552 W 087° 54.833
16R E 412459 N 3394036
Located on Bull Run Road in the Spanish Fort Estates section, notes the shelling of Confederate forces at the Battle of Spanish Fort.
Waymark Code: WMTXHJ
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2017
Views: 7
Marker text:
Twenty-nine Union field guns, manned by men of the 3d Indiana, 1st Illinois and 2d Iowa Batteries, shelled these Confederate trenches for 13 consecutive days and nights. The fact that these trenches were never breached, attests to the courage of the Men in Gray.
Marker Name: Confederate Main Line of Resistance (The Battle of Spanish Fort, March 26-April 9, 1865)
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
Erected by the Spanish Fort Historical Society.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1960
Marker Number: N/A
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