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Photo Gallery: Snake Creek Gap
Marker text:
May 8, 1864. McPherson's 15th & 16th Corps seized Snake Creek
Gap. On the 9th, attempting to destroy the R.R. at Resaca, (defended by
Cantey's Div. of Polk's Corps), McPherson was forced to withdraw to the
mouth of the gap where he intrenched.
This was the beginning of Sherman's move to outflank Johnston's forces at
Dalton.
May 13-14, Sherman moved the 14th, 20th, & 23d Corps through the gap &
together with McPherson's troops, advanced toward Resaca - the 4th Corps
marching due S. from Dalton. On the 14th began the two-day battle of Resaca.
064-8 Georgia Historical Commission 1953
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