Civilians Abducted During Stoneman’s Raid

In August 1864 Union cavalry forces seized local residents Jacob Klutts and George Jarrell and attempted to use them as guides. Klutzy and Jarrell led them into an ambush at Barber's Creek where entrenched Athens Home Guard repelled them. The retreating Union forces took Klutts and Jarrell to Atlanta as prisoners then transferred them to the prison at Camp Chase Ohio where Klutts died on 11 Dec 1864 and Jarrell on 18 Jan 1865. Both are buried there.

Watkinsville, Georgia · United States