Wood's Brigade

Wood's Brigade is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1955.

In Ardmore Park, on Ardmore Road in Atlanta.

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Col. James Wood's brigade, Ward's div., (US) was the left of the 20th A.C. line. It was posted in the ravine N. of Collier Rd. where its left joined Kimball's brigade. Newton's div. 4th A.C. Featherston's (CS) attack was delayed by skirmishers while Wood deployed his 4 regts. to meet it ~ a counter-assault that drove the Mississippians up the slope. An attempt to penetrate the Fed. line between Wood & Kimball was prevented by the 73d & 55th Ohio regts. Driven to & S. of the rd., Featherston made an effort to dislodge Wood's troops from rail barricades there, but lack of support on his left & right forced his withdrawal.

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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 Wood's 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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Wood's Brigade

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