Flankers Road

Flankers Road is a Georgia historical marker in Clayton County, dedicated 1957.

On Hood Avenue in Fort Gillem.

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Commemorating action of General Iverson's cavalrymen of Wheeler's Corps in this vicinity who attempted to protect the railhead of Macon & Western Railroad for retreating Confederate troops after the fall of Atlanta.

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1888 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1890 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1892 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map IX. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Flankers Road

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