Kilpatrick's Cavalry on the Newnan Stage Road

Kilpatrick's Cavalry on the Newnan Stage Road is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1957.

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On November 14, 1864, the third cavalry of Gen. Sherman's Military Division of the Mississippi (US), Brig. Gen. Judson L. Kilpatrick, USA, 5500 men and 6 guns, marched from Marietta via Mayson-Turner ferry (Bankhead Highway bridge) and bivouacked 4 miles SW of Atlanta on the Newman Stage Road (Hardee Avenue in Fort McPherson). Kilpatrick's division had been selected by Gen. Sherman as the cavalry component of a reduced field force with which he was about to move through Georgia to the sea.On the 15th, the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman's army, Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard, USA, marched from bivouac areas near White Hall (West End) in two columns. The 15th Corps, Maj. Gen. P. J. Osterhaus, USA, moved via Old Jonesboro Road (Langston Ave - Perkerson Rd. - Stewart Ave. - Old Jonesboro Rd) toward Jonesboro. The 17th Corps, Maj. Gen. F. P. Blair, USA, moved via McDonough Road (Capitol Ave. - McDonough Blvd. - U.S. 23) toward Stockbridge.Kilpatrick marched at dawn, covering Howard's right flank. He moved past East Point, turned south along Flint River, and attacked Iverson's smaller cavalry division (CS), driving it through Jonesboro and toward Lovejoy's Station, 6 miles to the south.

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1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Colton's Georgia (1864) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman 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)

Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign, 1874, covering the location of Kilpatrick's Cavalry on the Newnan Stage Road, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign, 1874, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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