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Creation Date
5-3-2012
Description
Federal Raid Marker Buckhead GA.
This marker is located on Buckhead Road at railroad crossing in Buckhead, Morgan County, Georgia.
The marker reads as :
" On Saturday, November 19, 1864, Federal troops under Gen. Geary, Sherman´s 20th Army Corps, drove a small detachment of Confederate soldiers out of Buckhead, ate dinner and then destroyed the water tank, all railroad buildings and a large supply of cordwood. Moving out of Buckhead, the Federals destroyed the railroad to the Oconee River, there burning the bridge and railroad supplies. They destroyed gins and mills, 330 bales of cotton and 50,000 bushels of corn. That night they camped at Blue Springs (now Swords) on the plantation of Col. Lee Jordan."
Georgia Historical Commission 1956
Latitude, Longitude
33.56840000, -83.36250000
Rights Statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Keywords
Taylor, George Lansing, Jr.; Lance Taylor; Photographers -- Florida -- Jacksonville; Photograph collections -- Florida -- Jacksonville; Federal Raid Marker; Morgan County (Ga.); Buckhead (Ga.); Historical markers --- Georgia --- Buckhead.; Images