Howard's March to Jonesboro

Howard's March to Jonesboro is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1958.

On Bethaisda Road, near Bethaisda Drive in Riverdale.

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Aug. 1864. Howard's Army of the Tenn. (US), having abandoned siege operations on the W. side of Atlanta, moved S. in a flanking march to cut the West Point R.R. at & below Shadnor Ch. On the 30th, the army moved E. toward Jonesboro to seize and destroy the Macon railroad. Ransom's 16th & Blair's 17th A.C. marched from Fairburn; Logan's 15th, from Shadnor Ch., the 3 merging along this, the main rd. to Jonesboro. Armstrong's & Ross' cav. (CS), resisted the advance from this side of Bethsaida Ch. to & beyond Camp Cr. as far as Renfroe's, from which place Federals reached Flint River at 10 P.M.

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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)
1888 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Howard's March to Jonesboro, 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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Howard's March to Jonesboro

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