Sherman at Harris' Quarters

Newton County · dedicated 1958 · At US 278 at Ga 142 east of Covington.

On Nov. 18, 1864, during the March to the Sea, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman established the headquarters of the Military Division of the Mississippi (US) here at "Harris' Quarters," the overseer's house and slave cabins of a large plantation owned by Judge John Harris of Covington. Gen. Sherman was accompanying the 14th Corps of Maj. Gen. Jefferson Columbus Davis (US). After stripping Harris, Graves, and other nearby plantations of livestock and provisions, the 14th Corps, followed by a number of newly emancipated freedmen, departed on the 19th and marched southeast through Sand Town (Newborn) and Shady Dale en route to rendezvous with t the 20th Corps of the US Army at Milledgeville.

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