Photo Gallery: Richard Peters Plantation Marker text: May 16, 1864 Williams' 1st & Geary's 2d divs., 20th A.C., crossed the Coosawattee at McClure's Ferry near Pine Chapel, & night of the 17th, reached this cross-roads - Buschbeck's brigade of Geary's div. camping on the Peters plantation. These troops, together with the 4th & 14th Corps on the Atlanta road 1 mile W., were of the Army of the Cumberland & center of Sherman's advance S. from two days of battle at Resaca. The 4th & 14th Corps marched to Kingston; the 20th. to Cassville. 064-25 Georgia Historical Commission 1953

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