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On Nov. 29, 1864, Jackson's and Geary's divisions of the 20th Corps under Williams, in Gen. Sherman's army, destroyed the railroad from Spier's Turnout (Bartow), No. 11, CRR, through Bethany (Wadley), No. 10 1/2, CRR, to the Ogeechee River. The next morning, after Confederate defenders had burned both the railway and wagon bridges east of Bethany, Jackson and Geary marched up the west bank and crossed the Ogeechee River at Cowart's Bridge, 2.5 miles SE of Louisville, then turned east to Eden Church on Big Creek, where they rejoined Ward's division and the corps trains that had moved on the direct road through Davisboro and Louisville.
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Wadley, Georgia · United States
