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Around midday on September 20, 1863, York's Georgia Battery unlimbered on the Snodgrass Hill front and blasted canister through Union charges. Its commander, Lieutenant William S. Everett, expended hundreds of rounds before nightfall ended the fighting.
York's (Georgia) Battery 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 34.9246, -85.2749 near Fort Oglethorpe. The nearest cataloged historic site is Battery E, 9th Georgia Artillery Battalion (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Johnson's Brigade, Johnson's Brigade, and Johnson's Brigade.
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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