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Augustus Hurt House

Location:Carter Presidential Center parking lot
LATITUDE33.7667536425
LONGITUDE-84.3558039253
County:Fulton

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AUGUSTUS HURT HOUSE

200 yds. N.E. stood the plantation residence of Augustus F. Hurt (1830-1921), built 1858 and razed by Federal forces, 1864; erroneously cited in Official Records as the Howard house.

July 22, 1864. 4th & 23d A.C. troops, in line with Federal advances on Atlanta, occupied this hill, having marched via old Williams Mill Rd. Sherman, together with Howard & Schofield, maintained command posts here during the afternoon while McPherson`s Army of the Tennessee fought defensively at & S. of the Ga. R.R. where two of Hood`s corps [CSA] attacked it. Here, McPherson`s body was brought from battlefield enroute to burial at Clyde, Ohio.

060-79 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956
       
 

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