Hardee's Salient

Hardee's Salient is a Georgia historical marker in Cobb County, dedicated 1953.

On New Salem Road, between Stilesboro and Burnt Hickory Roads in Marietta.

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June 16, 1864. From this point as a pivot, the Confederate line W. to Gilgal Church & Lost Mtn. was swung back to a N. & S. line E. of Mud Creek, thereby making a salient angle - Hardee's A.C. on the left or S; Polk's & Hood's Corps on the right, or E. [CS]. This shift of Hardee's line was due to pressure on his front by the 20th & 23d Corps, [US] from June 9 to 15. Further pressure by the 4th, 14th & 20th Corps [US] upon Hardee's salient, June 17, 18, forced Johnston to abandon his entire line, June 19, for a final position which included Kennesaw Mountain.

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1864 · Position Army Cumbld., June 21st/64 (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Atlanta Campaign 3rd epoch. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Hardee's Salient, 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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