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- SITE - MOON'S STATION
A wood-shed, water-tank, siding
& log house. Here, April 12, 1862, the pursuers of the Andrews
Raiders [US] -- Fuller, Cain & Murphy [CS], acquired a push-car
from section foreman Jackson Bond, which carried them 14 mi.
down grade to the Etowah River.
Oct. 3, 1864. A Federal stockade,
garrisoned by 84 officers & men from the 14th & 15th
Ill., was located on the high ground 50 yds. E. of the track.
The stockade was attacked &
captured by Reynolds' brigade, Walthall's div., Stewart's A.
C. [CS] Loring's div. captured the Acworth garrison [US], 4 mi.
N., Oct. 4th.
033-45 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1954
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