Logan's 15th Corps at Swaintown

02/20/09

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The pictures below show the marker, current road, an older abandoned bridge, and some possible camping area.

Marker text:
May 23, 1864. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan's 15th A.C., camped here at Euharlee Cr., on the site of old Swaintown while Maj. Gen. G.M. Dodge's 16th A.C. camped at Peek's Spring one mile Northwest.

These two A.C., comprising McPherson's Army of the Tennessee, had moved from Woolley's Bridge, Etowah River, to this vicinity. The next day they marched by Van Wert toward Dallas, Paulding County.

May 25. Brig. Gen. J.C. Davis' 2nd div., 14th, A.C., crossed Euharlee Creek here also enroute to Dallas.

115-3 Georgia Historic Marker 1990

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