South on this road, eight-tenths of a mile away, stands the antebellum residence of Alexander Eaton (1809-1905). On July 3, 4, and 5, 1864, the entrenched lines of Gen. John B. Hood’s Army Corps [CS] extended along the road from the Gann Cemetery to the site of Cooper’s Lake. Because the Eaton house was only one mile east of these lines, Gen. Hood used it as headquarters. From the Eaton house, Hood directed his troops in the Battle of Ruff’s Mill on July 4, with the Army Corps serving as the left flank of Johnston’s Smyrna-Ruff’s Mill line [CS] after his retreat from Kennesaw. Rufus Eaton, age 6, son of Alexander, said he saw Johnston at the house during the battle.