The March to Soap Creek
Schofield's 23d A. C. [US] marked time in this vicinity while McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. [US] made demonstrations at Chattahoochee ferries below Johnston’s River Line [CS] -- indicating, falsely, that crossings would be made there while actual passages upstream were planned.
July 6, 1864. The 23d A. C. began its march to upper reaches of the river by moving E. on this, the old Concord Road via the battlefields of Ruff’s Mill & Smyrna, to the mouth of Soap Creek, 11 miles N. E.
Passage of the river there, July 8, forced Johnston to evacuate his River Line, July 9.
Marker is at the intersection of Concord Road and Hicks Road, on the right when traveling west on Concord Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
