- Battle of Dug Gap State Historical
Marker
- Located on Mill Creek Rd. at Babb's Cemetery
- 34.736593°N, 85.041298°W
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(Text)
- BATTLE OF DUG GAP
May 8, 1864. Maj. Gen. J.W. Geary,
with Buschbeck's & Candy's brigades of the 2d div., 20th
A.C., moving from near Gordon's Springs, reached this, the Babb
Settlement, at 3 p.m.
Planting McGill's Penna. Battery
(3 inch Rodman guns) near Joel Babb's house, the Confederate
position at Dug Gap in rocky Face Ridge was shelled. This was
followed by a concerted assault up the steep scarp by Buschbeck's
brigade on the right, Candy's on the left.
Repeated attempts by the Federals
to seize the gap ended in failure, but under cover of this engagement,
McPherson's troops occupied Snake Creek Gap, 6 mi. S.W.
- 155-10 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1954
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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