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Exterior Line Historical Marker
- Exterior Line State Historical
Marker
- Located at Cascade Ave. and Martin Luther King Dr.
in Atlanta, Ga.
(Text)
- THE EXTERIOR LINE
- JULY-AUGUST, 1864
When Federal forces E. of Atlanta
were shifted to the W. side, to move against the Macon and the
West Point railroads (entering the city from the S.W.), the Confederate
defenders intrenched a line W. of a parallel to them.
This line began at W. Fair &
Ashby Sts. & ran w.W. to & beyond this point, ending
at the Ga. Military Academy in College Park.
Siege operations (July 28 - Aug.
25) were barren of results & ceased with transfer of Federal
forces S. to Fairburn & Jonesboro, where the seizure of the
railroads & the consequent evacuation of Atlanta, ended the
campaign.
060-136 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1958
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