Featherston's Brigade

Fulton County · dedicated 1955 · In Ardmore Park, on Ardmore Road in Atlanta.

Gen. W.S. Featherston's Mississippi brigade of Loring's div., Stewart's A.C. (CS) together with Scott's brigade (on his left), advanced from trenches at & near Loring's Hill .9 miles S.W. Traversing a broken area of tangled forest the brigade crossed Tanyard Branch under fire of Geary's batteries west of it & struck Collier Road in this sector. Dislodging Coburn's skirmishers - the 22d Wis. posted behind rail barricades at the S. side of the rd., the brigade moved down the slope N. toward Coburn's & Wood's positions. Pressed back to the abandoned barricades, front & flank attacks forced its withdrawal.

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