Confederate Line: 5 P.M. May 19, 1864

Confederate Line: 5 P.M. May 19, 1864 is a Georgia historical marker in Bartow County, dedicated 1952.

On Mac Johnson Road, northeast of US 41 in Cartersville.

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The three corps of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army [CSA] were withdrawn from N. & W. of Cassville to this ridge, E. & S. of the town. Hardee was posted astride the R.R. near Cass Station on the S. Polk centered here & Hood's line skirted the cemetery N. This shift from an aggressive to a defensive position resulted in a Council of War at Polk's h'dq'rs, where it was claimed the line was untenable, whereupon Johnston ordered a retreat to to the Etowah River that night.

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1891 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1896 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1901 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1906 · Stilesboro, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1908 · Stilesboro, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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