The Federal Salient

The Federal Salient is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1958.

At the intersection of Laurel Avenue and Archer Street in Atlanta.

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July 28, 1864. The N.E. cor. of Laurel & Archer was the location of a salient angle in the line of Logan's 15th Corps troops (US) in the Battle of Ezra Church. N.W. from the angle, Harrow's & M. L. Smith's divs. extended to Anderson Ave.; Wood's div. was deployed N.E. along the old Lick Skillet Rd. (no longer there) to Ezra Ch. (S.E. cor. Mozley Park) & beyond, where it joined the Right of the 17th Corps. Clayton's div. (S, D. Lee's A. C.) attacked the angle with Gibson's, Baker's & Holtzclaw's brigades (CS). This was the Right of the Confederate line. The post-war structure, Battle Hill school, stood at the S.E. cor. of Laurel Ave. & Archer St.

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Historical maps covering this location

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 The Federal Salient, 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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