Site: J. Oliver Powell House, Sherman's Headquarters

Site: J. Oliver Powell House, Sherman's Headquarters is a Georgia historical marker in DeKalb County, dedicated 1954.

At 1481 Clairmont Road in Decatur.

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West of this point 75 ft., was the ante-bellum residence of James Oliver Powell (1826-1873), Sherman's headquarters, July 19, 1864. Sherman traveled with Schofield's 23d A.C. from the Chattahoochee River at Power's Fy. July 17, & arrived here July 19. The house was used as a temporary hospital while the 23d A.C. was in this vicinity. Cox's (3d) div. moved to the Paden plantation (Emory University); Hascall's (2d) div., together with Dodge's 16th A.C. occupied Decatur after a spirited conflict with the defenders of the town - a detachment of Wheeler's cavalry (CS).

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1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Site: J. Oliver Powell House, Sherman's Headquarters

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