Battle of Buck Head Creek

Here on November 28, 1864, Wheeler's Confederate cavalry surprised and nearly captured the careless Judson Kilpatrick, whose troopers had been raiding toward Millen hoping to free Union prisoners at Camp Lawton before being driven off.

Battle of Buck Head Creek is a historical marker in Perkins, Jenkins County. It is one of 16 historical markers documented in Jenkins County, among 44 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.9010, -82.0242 near Perkins. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cavalry Action at Buckhead Church (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Big Buckhead Church, Big Buckhead Cemetery, and Carswell Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery.

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