Fort Walker State Historical
Marker
Located in Grant Park, Atlanta, Ga.
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FORT WALKER
Southeastern salient of Atlanta's
inner line of fortifications erected during the Summer &
Fall of 1863. The line consisted of a cordon of redoubts on hills
connected by rifle pits encircling the city, aggregating some
10.5 miles of earthworks designed & supervised by Col. L.
P. Grant, pioneer citizen, construction engineer & railroad
builder of Atlanta.
After 93 years, it is one
of a few remnants of a line that withstood the quartering steel
& climbing fire of Federal armies forty-two days -- evacuated
only when the remaining R.R. was cut. The fort was named for
Maj. General W.H.T. Walker, killed in the Battle of Atlanta.
060-108 GEORGIA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956
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