Cleburne's & Maney's Divs.
July 22, 1864. These troops, with Walker’s and Bate’s divs., Hardee’s A.C. (CS) made a 15-mi. night march from Atlanta to attack the rear of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) posted on Flat Shoals Road in East Atlanta. Cleburne’s & Maney’s move N.W. up Flat Shoals Rd. struck, not the rear but the left flank, of the Fed. 17th A.C. where its line bent eastward.
Cleburne’s four brigades were deployed on & eastward of the road; Maney’s four brigades, W. of it. The immediate area was heavily wooded. Their attack was made somewhat later than Walker’s and Bate’s, 1 mile E. in the valley of Sugar Creek near Terry’s Mill Pond.
Marker is at the intersection of Flat Shoals Avenue and Ormewood Avenue on Flat Shoals Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
