Fort Tyler stood 125 yards northwest on the crest of a hill as the last Confederate fort to fall in the War Between the States. Built of earthworks thirty-five yards square, it was surrounded by a ditch twelve feet wide and ten feet deep and enclosed by wooden abatis, and it was erected to protect important railroad and wagon bridges across the Chattahoochee River east of this point. On Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, a garrison of 265 Confederates, remnants of Point Coupe Louisiana and Waittes’ South Carolina Batteries, aided by boys and convalescent Confederate soldiers, withstood an attack by 3,500 Federals before capitulating late in the afternoon. The Confederate forces were commanded by Gen. R.C. Tyler, Col. J.H. Fannin, Capts. Gonzales, Trepanier and Webb, and Lieuts. Montgomery and McFarland. Units of the 2nd and 4th Indiana, 7th Kentucky, and 1st Wisconsin, commanded by Col. O.H. LaGrange, formed part of the U.S. forces. The stone home of Dr. A.W. Griggs, a Confederate surgeon, built in 1858 and remodeled in 1951, stands forty feet northwest; although hit repeatedly by cannon fire from both forces, its original walls remain intact, and there Mrs. Griggs and other West Point women gave aid and shelter to wounded of both armies after the battle.