Confederate Intrenchments: 1864

Fulton County · dedicated 1958 · On Alfred Holmes Golf Course in Atlanta.

This line of earthworks in Adams Park is one of the few remaining sections of the exterior portion of Atlanta's defenses designed as a barrier to Federal attempts to cut the two railroads that enter the city from the S.W. Built about Aug. 1, it joined the main line of city fortifications at W. Fair & Ashby Sts., from which it ran S.W. to East Point - later prolonged to Thames' Mill in Clayton County. Manned by troops of Hardee's and S.D. Lee's corps, it with-stood all Federal attempts to seize it and was abandoned only when the Federals cut the railroads at Fairburn and Jonesboro.

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