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During the Battle of Peachtree Creek on July 20, 1864, General Featherston's Mississippi brigade of Stewart's Corps charged across tangled woods and Tanyard Branch, briefly seizing Union barricades on Collier Road before flanking fire drove it back.
Featherston’s Brigade is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 1955. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.8062, -84.3991 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Coburn's Brigade (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Wood's Brigade, The Mississippi Brigade, and Old Montgomery Fy. Rd..
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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