Well only nineteen new Civil War related markers this week.
These represent Civil War related sites in Georgia, Kansas,
Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Not bad for a
summer week’s batch of entries. Here’s the rundown: - Three
markers in Polk County, Georgia relate the passage of the
Federals during the Atlanta Campaign, May 23-25, 1863. This was
Sherman’s move to the right past Cassville toward the Dallas
Line – Davis & Dodge at Peek’s Creek, Logan at Swaintown, and
McPherson’s March to Dallas. Another marker, further south near
Dallas in Paulding County discusses the 20th Corps Detour to New
Hope Church on May 25, 1863. - On the other side of the 1864
campaigning season in the Peach state is discussed on a marker
in Social Circle, Walton County, Georgia. The 14th and 20th
Corps passed through in the middle of November during the March
to the Sea. - A couple of entries this week highlight the
history of Fort Scott, Kansas. Once used as a frontier post, it
was abandoned in the decade before