Battle of West Point

Battle of West Point is a Georgia historical marker in Troup County, dedicated 1953.

At the intersection of US 29 and 2nd Avenue in West Point.

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800 yds. northwest is the site of Fort Tyler - last Confederate fort to fall in the War Between the States. A force of Union cavalry captured Fort Tyler after an 8 hour siege. 19 Confederate engines and 340 [CS] railroad cars loaded with commissary supplies, cotton goods, machinery and leather were destroyed near West Point. Railroad and wagon bridges which spanned the Chattahoochee river near this point were burned before Federal forces [USA] moved eastward to Macon.

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USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection

Historical maps covering this location

1897 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1907 · Opelika, Alabama (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1909 · Opelika, Alabama (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1917 · The Rand-McNally new commercial atlas map of Alabama (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

Opelika, Alabama, 1909, covering the location of Battle of West Point, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Opelika, Alabama, 1909, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This historical marker is part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program and was erected by the Georgia Historical Commission. Marker texts and locations come from the Society's own marker database.

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