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On the night of Dec. 2, 1864, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, with Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi, camped on the west bank of Buckhead Creek near the bridge. During the late afternoon of the 2nd, the 17th Corps, Blair’s, had crossed the creek and burned the railway station, the hotel, and several warehouses erected by the Confederate Army. That night, the corps camped south of Millen, except for one brigade and the trains, which remained west of Buckhead Creek until morning. On the 3rd, the 17th Corps moved forward by way of Paramore Hill to Scarborough, old no. 7, CRR, destroying the railroad en route.
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