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The March to Soap Creek

Cobb County · dedicated 1954 · At the intersection of Concord Road and Hicks Road, on the right when traveling west on Concord Road in Mableton.

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Schofield's 23d A. C. [US] marked time in this vicinity while McPherson's Army of the Tenn. [US] made demonstrations at Chattahoochee ferries below Johnston's River Line [CS] -- indicating, falsely, that crossings would be made there while actual passages upstream were planned. July 6, 1864. The 23d A. C. began its march to upper reaches of the river by moving E. on this, the old Concord Road via the battlefields of Ruff's Mill & Smyrna, to the mouth of Soap Creek, 11 miles N. E. Passage of the river there, July 8, forced Johnston to evacuate his River Line, July 9.

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