02/20/09

Photo Gallery: McPherson's Army at Snake Creek Gap

Marker text:
A narrow, 3 mi. passage between two ridges, beginning 1 mi. S. of this marker & ending at the fork of Sugar Valley & Resaca roads.

May 8, 1864. While Geary's Div. (20th A.C.) stormed Rocky Face Ridge at Dug Gap, 5 mi. N.E.. McPherson's Army of the Ten.. (15th & 116th A.C.), gained a lodgment in Snake Cr. Gap & held it while the 14th, 20th & 23rd Corps left the Dalton front & marched through the gap.

Outflanked in his position at Dalton, Johnston evacuated it, May 12, & withdrew to Resaca, which he defended against Sherman's forces in two days of battle, May 14 & 15.

146-10 Georgia Historical Commission 1953

Picture below: old bridge across Snake Creek next to historic marker.