- Battle of King's Tanyard State
Historical Marker
- Located in trees and bushes on Ga 211 about 5 miles
northwest of Winder
- 34°02'18N, 83°46'29W
(Text)
- BATTLE OF KING'S TANYARD
On July 31, 1864, at the Battle
of Sunshine Church (19 miles NE of Macon), Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman
[Union] surrendered with 600 men to Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson,
Jr., [Confederate], after covering the escape of Adams' and Capron's
brigades of his cavalry command. Both units retreated via Athens,
intending to resupply their troops there, but were stopped early
on August 2nd at the river bridge south of Athens by Home Guard
units with artillery. Unable to cross, they turned west; Capron
on the Hog Mountain road to Jug Tavern (Winder), and Adams on
roads farther north by which he reached the Union lines near
Marietta without further loss.
Late that night, Capron halted
briefly at Jug Tavern, fed and watered his horses, then marched
to King's Tanyard (about 300 yards, E) and halted again for two
hours to rest his exhausted command. A large body of runaway
negroes, who had followed the column, crowded in between the
rear pickets and the main body. Before dawn on August 3rd, Williams'
Kentucky brigade [Confederate], in pursuit from Sunshine Church,
charged over his pickets and into the panic-stricken negroes
"driving and scattering everything before them." Thrown
into confusion, Capron's men soon gave way and stampeded toward
Mulberry River. About 430 were captured and sent to Athens; others
escaped into the woods. Capron himself, with six men, reached
Marietta four days later -- on foot.
This engagement called also the
Battle of Jug Tavern, was the final event of the Federal fiasco
known as the Stoneman Raid.
- 007 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1957
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© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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