On June 17, 1908, women from Chapter 599 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and a few Confederate veterans dedicated a monument at the site of the Battle of Brown's Mill in Coweta County. Mrs. Catharine Wright Gibson, who had proposed the idea, turned the first spade of dirt for a simple four-foot marble shaft inscribed that Gen. Jos. Wheeler, C.S.A., routed Gen. E. M. McCook, U.S.A., on July 27, 1864, capturing 900 of his men. Present was Tom Carpenter, an eyewitness who had been thirteen during the fighting and had sold the five-foot-square parcel for five dollars. Afterward he took the party to his nearby home, still marked by bullet holes, and showed them a stain on the porch where he said a badly wounded Union officer had lain and angrily driven off a would-be thief trying to take his coat. That officer was almost certainly Lieutenant Colonel William H. Torrey, who was shot in the left lung at the start of the battle, taken to Newnan's Buckner Hospital, and died on August 2, 1864. The monument stood at the correct spot of Wheeler's ambush of Torrey's brigade, but its date was wrong. After the shaft was badly damaged sometime after February 1910, the Newnan chapter, led by longtime president Helen M. Long, obtained additional land from George L. Wynn for one dollar, enclosed the lot with an iron fence and granite posts, and on July 24, 1912, dedicated a larger marble monument. Its inscription corrected the battle date to July 30, 1864, but reduced the captured force to 500 men. Wheeler actually took about 1300 of McCook's men, crippling Sherman's cavalry and changing the course of the Atlanta campaign.