Restoring the Line

Restoring the Line is a Georgia historical marker in DeKalb County, dedicated 1983.

Dekalb Ave. at Elmira Place in Atlanta.

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July 22, 1864. After Cheatham's troops [CS] broke the Federal 15th A.C. line at the R.R. cut and the Hurt house (DeGress Ave.), Mersy's 16th A.C. brigade was brought up from the battlefield 1 mile S. of the R.R. to assist in restoring it. Lightburn and Martin were deployed on and south of the R.R.; Mersy's brigade north of it (near this point), with Wood's two brigades aligned on his right, facing the left flank of the Confederate forces in the captured sector. In a concerted assault, the five brigades [US] advanced and recovered the line, together with the four guns of the DeGress battery. This stirring action is pictured in the Cyclorama.

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1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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)
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Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Restoring the Line, 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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Restoring the Line

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