The Mississippi Brigade

The Mississippi Brigade is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1955.

On Collier Road, just west of Ardmore Road in Atlanta.

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Brig. Gen. W. S. Featherston -- Loring's div. It consisted of the 40th, 31st, 22d, 3d & 33d regts., (deployment sequence W. to E.) Stigler's sharpshooters in skirmish line. Brigade was on extreme rt. of Stewart's A.C., joining Hardee's A.C., which prolonged the line E. to Clear Cr. Featherston's (CS) assault struck the fronts of Coburn's & Wood's brigades (US) in the ravine N. of Collier Rd. -- his right regts. vainly attempting to enter a gap between Wood's & Kimball's brigades, in which action Col. J.L. Drake, 33d Miss. was slain. Repelled by counter-assaults, brigade withdrew S. of rd., which the Federals held against repeated attempts to retake it.

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1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1890 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1892 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign, 1874, covering the location of The Mississippi Brigade, 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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The Mississippi Brigade

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