Battle of Jonesboro The Second Day

On September 1, 1864, Davis's 14th Corps stormed Hardee's salient near the Warren house in the final pitched fight of the four-month Atlanta Campaign; Hardee withdrew toward Lovejoy's Station that night, and Atlanta fell the next day.

Battle of Jonesboro The Second Day is a historical marker in Jonesboro, Clayton County, erected in 1958. It is one of 48 historical markers documented in Clayton County, among 75 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.5341, -84.3527 near Jonesboro. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hardee’s Corps at Jonesboro (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Confederate Cemetery, Two Days of Battle at Jonesboro, and Patrick Cleburne Confederate Cemetery.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.