Where Hood Watched the Battle of Atlanta

Where Hood Watched the Battle of Atlanta is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1956.

In Oakland Cemetery, on Oakland Avenue in Atlanta.

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In 1856 James E. Williams (Mayor of Atlanta 1866-1868), built a residence atop this high ground which later became a part of Oakland Cemetery. From the second story of the house, Gen. John B. Hood, in command of Confederate forces, & members of his staff, watched that part of the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, where Brown's & Clayton's divs., Cheatham's A.C. [CS], moved eastward astride the Ga. R.R. to the assault on the Federal 15th A.C. line also astride the R.R. -- at DeGress Ave., 1 1/4 mi. distant. A notable landmark of this area -- the Rolling Mill -- stood on the site of the cotton mill.

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1845 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · 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, 1856, covering the location of Where Hood Watched the Battle of Atlanta, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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