Kilpatrick's Cavalry at the Towaliga River

Kilpatrick's Cavalry at the Towaliga River is a Georgia historical marker in Monroe County, dedicated 1957.

Ga 42 at the Towaliga River.

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On Nov. 17, 1864, Kilpatrick's cavalry division (US), which was covering the right flank of Gen. Sherman's army on its March to the Sea, moved from Bear Creek Station (Hampton) 31 miles northwest, down the north bank of Towaliga River to threaten Griffin and Forsyth. This threat caused the Towaliga bridges to be burned by Wheeler's cavalry (CS) to protect those towns and the large Confederate hospital centers there. A skirmish at this bridge marked the most southerly point west of the Ocmulgee River reached by US forces during this campaign.

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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 Kilpatrick's Cavalry at the Towaliga River, 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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Kilpatrick's Cavalry at the Towaliga River

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