Stevenson's Line

Stevenson's Line is a Georgia historical marker in Whitfield County, dedicated 2001.

At 2209 Crow Valley Road in Dalton.

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During demonstrations on Rocky Face & in Crow Valley, by 4th and 23rd. Army Corps troops, the northern line of Dalton's defense works crossed the road here. Stevenson's div. (Hood's Army Corps) held this sector, his left at Cheatham's line, at Signal Station on Rocky Face; his right, at Ault's Creek, E. May 9, 1864. Stevenson's men repulsed the 23rd Army Corps in Crow Valley, & the desperate attempt by Harker's and Wagner's brigades, Newton's Division 4th Army Corps, to break the left of Stevenson at & near the top of Rocky Face, where Pettus' & Brown's brigades were posted behind stone breastworks that are still there.

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Historical maps covering this location

1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Dalton, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Stevenson's Line, 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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