02/20/09

Photo Gallery: Ship's Gap

Marker text:
May 7, 1864. Col. J.W. Sprague's (2nd) brigade, Veatch's (4th) Div., 16th A.C., having camped with the corps on the little Chickamauga (near Catlett 4 mi. N.), pushed forward in a surprise move and seized this gap in Taylor's Ridge at 0p.m.

This enabled Dodge & the 16th A.C. (McPherson's Army of the Tenn.) to march E., unopposed, to Villanow & Snake Creek Gap, May 8.

The 15th Corps (same army) crossed at Gordon Springs Gap, 4 miles N.E.. McPerson's move to Snake Creek Gap outflanked the Confederate forces under Gen. J.C. Johnston at Dalton -- resulting later in the evacuation of that place and the two days of battle at Resaca.

146-7 Georgia Historic Marker 1992