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Two hundred yards northeast stood the plantation residence of Augustus F. Hurt (1830-1921), built in 1858 and razed by Federal forces in 1864; it was erroneously cited in Official Records as the Howard house. On July 22, 1864, 4th and 23d A.C. troops, in line with Federal advances on Atlanta, occupied this hill after marching by way of old Williams Mill Road. During the afternoon, Sherman, together with Howard and Schofield, maintained command posts here while McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee fought defensively at and south of the Ga. R.R., where two of Hood’s corps (CS) attacked it. McPherson’s body was brought here from the battlefield en route to burial at Clyde, Ohio.
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