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Photo Gallery: Site - Cassville Female College
Marker text:
A large brick structure erected 1953.
May 19, 1864: Skirmishers of Polk's A.C. withdrew from this ridge E. to
Cassville when pressed back by Butterfield's (3d) Div., 20th A.C. from the
Hawkins Price house.
Battery C, 1st Ohio Lt. Art., supported by 73d Ohio, 19th Mich. & 20th Conn.
Reg'ts. occupied ridge & shelled the town as Johnston's Army withdrew to
ridge E. of it.
At night, Cassville was seized by the 19th Mich. & 20th. Conn. Female
College & town were burned by Federal forces, Nov. 1864.
008-21 Georgia Historical Commission 1953
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