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Photo Gallery: Wheeler's Cav. at Decatur
Marker text:
July 22, 1864. Coincident with Hardee's night march to attack
Federal forces in E. Atlanta, Wheeler's cavalry was sent to sieze
McPherson's wagon trains parked N. of the Decatur public square, guarded by
Sprague's 16th A.C. brigade & three sections of field artillery.
Wheeler's men, dismounted, were deployed S. of the R.R. & drove Sprague's
troops, together with the Chicago Board of Trade & Michigan batteries, to
the public square where, outflanked, they withdrew with the wagon trains to
the North Decatur Road.
Wheeler made no pursuit because of peremptory orders to rejoin Hardee in E.
Atlanta.
044-31 Georgia Historical Commission 1956
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