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Confederate engineers fortified this bluff in 1863 against Federal gunboats that never came; the town instead became a refuge of makeshift hospitals receiving wounded carried upriver from the Battle of Olustee, with unknown Confederate dead buried nearby.
In the Confederacy is a historical marker in Fort Gaines, Clay County, erected in 1957. It is one of 19 historical markers documented in Clay County, among 63 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.6061, -85.0548 near Fort Gaines. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Old Lattice Bridge (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The 1836 Fort, Fort Gaines, and Site of Fort Gaines Female College.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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