Federal Artillery

Union batteries (26

guns) formed a line

here, March 19. These

guns covered retreating

Federals during the

Confederate charges

and finally halted

the advance of the

Confederate Right Wing.

Marker is on Harper House Road, on the left when traveling east.

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Union Headquarters

Maj. Gen. H. W. Slocum,

commanding Sherman’s

Left Wing, had head-

quarters in this field,

March 19-21, 1865.

Marker is at the intersection of Harper House Road and Newton Grove Road, on the right when traveling east on Harper House Road.

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Federal Earthworks

Constructed by First

Michigan Engineers and

others, March 19, 1865.

Occupied by Federals

throughout the battle.

Works begin 75 yards

behind this marker.

Marker is on Mill Creek Church Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Winter Quarters Huts

In 1863, your view from here would have been of a barren, muddy landscape, with crude, smoking huts half buried in the hillsides. The area surrounding the Fort was most likely stripped of timber as the need for open fields ...

Garthright House

"We charged across the open field under a murdrous storm of balls & canister shot...& soon gained complet[e] possesion of all the buildings....We soon fortified as best we could the aproaches to the house by barrells & farming tools & ...

Pope's Headquarters

August 29 & 30, 1862

Headquarters, Army of Virginia, USA

Pope's Headquarters

Headquarters, Army of Virginia, USA

1:00 p.m. August 29 to 6:00 p.m. August 30, 1862

"There were no tents, nothing to mark the spot except a cracker box or two for seats."

- Brig. ...

Battery D, 2d U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery D, 2nd U.S. Artillery.

Lieut. Edward B. Williston, U.S.A., Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Battery D, 2nd U.S. Artillery, moved from its bivouac near Crampton's Pass on the morning of the 17th and went into position south of the Smoketown Road, its center ...

Batteries A and C 4th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Batteries A and C 4th U.S. Artillery.

Lieut. Evan Thomas, U.S.A., Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Batteries A and C (consolidated), 4th U.S. Artillery (6 guns), relieved Battery I, 1st U.S. Artillery just north of this point and went into position, the left of ...

Sparta

Sparta, Seat of Justice for Hancock County in 1795, became a chartered town, Dec. 3, 1803. Situated at an Indian trading post, in constant danger of border trouble, the town was named Sparta to indicate the bravery of its pioneer ...

Battery I, 1st U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery I, 1st U.S. Artillery,

Lieut. Geo. A. Woodruff, U.S.A. Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Between 9 and 10 a.m., Battery I, 1st Artillery, advancing by the Smoketown Road, passed through the East Woods to the assistance of the infantry of Sedgwick's Division, then ...