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This marker remembers the Alabama and Mississippi soldiers of O'Neal's Confederate brigade, who joined Hood's July 20, 1864 attack at Peachtree Creek. Their charge toward the Union lines near Collier Road ran into Geary's stubborn defense and was thrown back.
O’Neal’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 33.8100, -84.4078 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Geary’s Refused Line (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include O’Neal’s Brigade at the Ravine, Reynolds’ Brigade at the Ravine, and Geary’s Division.
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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