Death of General Walker

On July 22, 1864, Maj. Gen. W.H.T. Walker, commanding a division of Hardee's A.C. for the Confederacy, was directing his troops toward the battlefield when he reached close to this spot at noon and, while pausing to reconnoiter the area, was shot from his horse by a Federal picket. Gen. Walker was succeeded by Gen. Hugh Mercer, who deployed the division in Sugar Cr. valley just west of this spot. Bate's division advanced on this side of the creek. The northward movement of these troops, rather than becoming the rear attack on the Federals that had been contemplated, struck two divisions of the Federal 16th A.C. that happened to be in their front at Clay St. and Memorial Dr.

Georgia · United States