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- 16TH A.C. TO ROSWELL
When the 23d A.C. [US] crossed
the Chattahoochee at Soap Creek, above the State R. R., July
8, 1864, Johnston's River Line [CS] (Oakdale Rd.) was evacuated
to the Fulton County side, July 9. There being no further need
of McPherson's Army of the Tenn. [US] on the lower Sandtown
Rd., it was sent up river to Roswell. The 16th was the 1st corps
to be shifted; it began its 27 mi. march from Mitchell's, 10
A. M. June 9, & camped that night 1 mi. E. of Marietta.
Its line of march included Powder
Springs Rd. from the Cheney house to the Marietta Public Square,
traversing, enroute the battlefield of Kolb's Farm.
033-60 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1954
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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