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Col. John Fulton's Tennessee brigade, Johnson's Division, seized this spur of Snodgrass Hill in the afternoon of September 20, 1863. Until sundown its repeated charges toward the crest were repulsed by Steedman's Union division before the line finally broke.
Johnson's Brigade is a historical marker in Fort Oglethorpe, Walker County, erected in 1890. It is one of 72 historical markers documented in Walker County, among 163 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.9259, -85.2743 near Fort Oglethorpe. The nearest cataloged historic site is York's Georgia Battery (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include 25th Tennessee Regiment, Battery E, 9th Georgia Artillery Battalion, and York's (Georgia) Battery.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
“Johnson's Brigade” names 3 distinct records in Walker County. This page is the historical marker erected in 1890 in Fort Oglethorpe. The others:
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