Cobb's Quarters: Sherman's Campsite

Cobb's Quarters: Sherman's Campsite is a Georgia historical marker in Baldwin County, dedicated 1956.

At the intersection of Old Monticello and Nelson Roads in Milledgeville.

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Marching toward Milledgeville via Covington, Shady Dale and Eatonton Factory, the Union Army's 14th Corps reached this crossroad the night of November 22, 1864. General Sherman camped at the Howell Cobb place, a few yards north of this point. Commanding his escort was Lieut. David R. Schnelling, a native of this community, whose home was six miles southwest of here. The 20th Corps, accompanied by General Henry W. Slocum, went into camp five miles east of this point on the old Eatonton Road.

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1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Colton's Georgia (1864) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Military map showing the marches of the United States Forces 1863-1865. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Cobb's Quarters: Sherman's Campsite, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1866, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Cobb's Quarters: Sherman's Campsite

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