Sherman at Jones Plantation

Sherman at Jones Plantation is a Georgia historical marker in Jenkins County, dedicated 1958.

Ga 17 near the Burke County Line.

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On Dec. 1, 1864, the 17th Corps (Blair's of Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman's army [USA] moved from Burton (Midville) to Herndon. Station No. 9. CRR. and camped in and near the town. Gen. Sherman. who had accompanied the 17th Corps since the army passed Sandersville, established his headquarters in the imposing plantation residence of Mr. Joseph B. Jones which stood immediately north of this point. On the 2nd, the 17th Corps marched from Herndon to Millen. Its work details destroying the railroad enroute and its foraging parties stripping the country of provision.

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Historical maps covering this location

1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Colton's Georgia (1864) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Military map showing the marches of the United States Forces 1863-1865. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Sherman at Jones Plantation, 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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