Site: Marcus Long House

Clayton County · dedicated 1988 · On Riverdale Road, north of Flat Shoals Road in Atlanta.

Near here stood the antebellum, one-story farm house of Marcus Long, a Confederate soldier who fell on a Virginia battlefield. The house, cited several times in Official Records, was a prominent landmark in movements of the Federal 4th and 23rd Corps from Red Oak on the A. & W.P. R.R. to the Macon R.R. at and below Rough & Ready, Aug. 30 and 31, 1864. The cutting of the two railroads forced General Hood to abandon Atlanta before he heard the final results of the fighting at Jonesboro.

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