Jonesboro Threatened

Clayton County · dedicated 1956 · US 19/41, .1 miles south of the Fulton Co. Line in Jonesboro.

August 30, 1864. On receipt of Hardee's report from Rough and Ready of Federal threats to the M. & W. R. R., at Jonesboro, Hood directed Hardee & S. D. Lee [CS] to come to headquarters. The locomotive N. C. Monroe was sent for them at sunset: Hardee at Rough and Ready, Lee at East Point. On reaching Atlanta, Hardee was directed by Hood to march two corps -- his own, under Cleburne, from near Rough and Ready, & Lee's from East Point -- to Jonesboro. This was an endeavor to checkmate the Federal threat to Atanta's last R. R. Hardee arrived by rail at Jonesboro before dawn the 31st, in advance of his marching soldiery.

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