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Photo Gallery: The Right Wing at Jackson
Marker text:
On the night of Nov. 17, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th
Corps) of General Sherman's army, which had marched south from Atlanta on
Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, reached Jackson. Hq.
Department and Army of the Tennessee (the Right Wing), Maj. Gen. O.O.
Howard, USA, and the headquarters of both corps were established in the
town.
Woods' and Hazen's divisions of the 15th Corps (Osterhaus), which had turned
south below Locust Grove to avoid Jackson, camped near Liberty Church (5
miles SW); Smith's division moved through Jackson to Flovilla (5 miles SE);
Corse's division, encumbered with wagon trains, reached Jackson the next
day.
Mower's and Leggett's divisions of the 17th Corps (Blair) camped east of
Jackson; C.A. Smith's division, accompanied by the 1st Missouri Engineers
(with a pontoon train), marched via the Key's Ferry road and camped near
Worthville (9 miles NE).
Kilpatrick's cavalry division, which had moved down Towaliga River to
threaten Griffin and Forsyth, camped near that stream.
That night, Osterhaus sent the 29th Missouri Mounted Infantry to seize the
ferry at Planters' Factory, on the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (9 miles
SE), and to secure both banks of the river at that point for the passage of
the troops next day.
018-2 Georgia Historical Commission 1957
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