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An Unexpected Clash

Location:Clifton St at Memorial Drive, East Atlanta
LATITUDE33.7472298336
LONGITUDE-84.3317853589
County:DeKalb

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AN UNEXPECTED CLASH

July 22, 1864. The attack by Walker`s & Bate`s divs. (Hardee`s A.C.) [CSA] struck the two brigades, Mersy`s & Rice`s, of Sweeny`s 16th A.C. div. [USA] enroute to support the 17th in E. Atlanta.

Walker`s troops came up Sugar Cr., valley from the S.; Bate`s from the high ground eastward.

Sweeny`s men hastily formed defensively -- Rice racing E., Mersy S., the apex of the lines atop the hill where Laird`s 14th Ohio Battery was posted & where Murphy High School stands. Blodgett`s Missouri Battery H was at Rice`s center, facing E. Though greatly outnumbered, Sweeny managed to hold the position, thereby foiling Hardee`s thrust at the Federal rear.

044-49 GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER 1988
       
 

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