- Baker's Brigade State Historical
Marker
- Located on Waverly Way at the north end of Springdale
Park in Atlanta
(Text)
BAKER'S BRIGADE
July 22, 1864. Baker's Alabama brigade
(Col. J.H. Higley comdg.), Clayton's div., Cheatham's A.C., [CSA}
was diverted N.E. in Clayton's attack on the 15th A.C. eastward,
thus forming the extreme left of the line extending S. to Glenwood
Ave. Higley's troops faced the right sector of the 15th A.C.
held by 2 brigades of Woods' div. on the S. slope of Copenhill.
A gap of 250 yds. in the swampy area of Clear Creek valley, separated
Woods from the right of Morgan Smith's div. where the DeGress
battery was posted.
Woods' flank attack on Manigault's line
at the Troup Hurt house not only retrieved the battery, but forced
Baker's brigade to withdraw
- 060-101 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1956
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© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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