McPherson's Army at Snake Creek Gap

McPherson's Army at Snake Creek Gap is a Georgia historical marker in Walker County, dedicated 1953.

Ga 136 at Lower Mill Creek Rd .3 miles E of Villanow.

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A narrow 3 mi passage between 2 ridges beginning 1 mi s of this marker & ending at the fork of Sugar Valley & Resaca roads. May 8th 1864. While Geary's Div. (20th A.C. [US]) stormed Rocky Face Ridge at Dug Gap. 5 mi N.E., McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (15th and 16th A.C. [US]) gained a lodgment in Snake Creek Gap & held it while the 14th, 20th, & 23d Corps [US] left the Dalton front & marched through the gap. Outflanked in his position at Dalton, Johnston [CSA] evacuated it May 12, & withdrew to Resaca, which he defended against Sherman's forces in 2 days of battle May 14th & 15th.

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1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Catoosa, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of McPherson's Army at Snake Creek Gap, 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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