Field's Mill and Ferry

Field's Mill and Ferry is a Georgia historical marker in Gordon County, dedicated 1959.

On Owens Gin Road, south of Evergreen Road in Calhoun.

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May 16, 1864. Butterfield's (3d) div., 20th A.C. [US] instead of crossing at McClure's Ferry 2 mi. down stream, sought to gain time by moving to Field's -- reaching here 11 p.m. Not until noon of the 17th was it across. Schofield, prevented from crossing his corps (23d) [US] at McClure's, moved the 1st & 2d divs. to Field's, arriving here early the 17th -- as did Cox's (3d) div., which had marched via Tilton & Holley. With Butterfield at Field's, Schofield's A.C. (the left wing of Sherman's advance from Resaca) was held up 24 hours because of the erratic moves of the 20th corps.

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1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Dalton, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Field's Mill and Ferry, 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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Field's Mill and Ferry

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