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On July 5, 1864, during Johnston’s retreat from Smyrna, part of his wagon train detoured from the Atlanta-Marietta Road by way of Vining’s Station to a pontoon bridge at Pace's Ferry. Wheeler’s cavalry escorted the trains, and after all had crossed, the bridge was cut loose to swing downstream to the Fulton County side. Federal gunfire prevented its removal, and although the Confederates cut it loose, instead of floating down to shelter within Johnston's River Line at Bolton, it lodged on this side, where troops of Hazen's 4th Army Corps brigade seized it on July 8.
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Vinings, Georgia · United States
