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Troop Positions
Troop Positions
This map shows the troop positions and movements during the Battle of Atlanta, which took place on July 22, 1864. See legend in upper right.
Confederate troops are shown in red.
Union troops are shown in blue.
The sold blue line running north and south just left of center is the battle's front line. Today, that is roughly where Flat Shoals Road and Moreland Avenue are today. That line stretched from what is now East Atlanta Village to the Inman Park MARTA station.
Contemporary roadways are superimposed onto the battlefield, which allows readers to understand where specific events took place in the context of modern-day Atlanta. For example, note Interstate 20, which runs horizontally the center of the map.
The Georgia Railroad, which is still there today, also runs east and west in the upper portion of the map. This is the railroad line (shared by MARTA) that runs along DeKalb Avenue.
This pivotal battle was primarily fought in the modern-day neighborhoods of Inman Park, Reynoldstown, Cabbagetown Edgewood, Candler Park, Kirkwood, East Atlanta, and Grant Park.
Please visit the Military Personnel page to learn more about the generals whose names appear on the battlefield map →
Please visit the Military Personnel page to learn more about the generals whose names appear on the battlefield map →
Battlefield Study Area*
Battlefield Study Area*
Map of Battlefield Core & Study Areas, US Nat'l Park Service: American Battlefield Protection Program. In 2010, the ABPP revised the Study Area to include the Confederate flanking movement and attack at Decatur. A Core Area was added at Decatur, and the main Core Area was expanded to include the Federal artillery positions.
(*) This map of the Battlefield Core & Study Area was created by the US Department of the Interior's American Battlefield Protection Program. In 2010, the ABPP revised the Battle of Atlanta Study Area to include the Confederate flanking movement and attack at Decatur. A Core Area was added at Decatur, and the main Core Area was expanded to include the Federal artillery positions.
The American Battlefield Protection Program promotes the preservation of significant historic battlefields and sites of armed conflict on American soil. ABPP's four grant programs empower our partners nationwide to accomplish their preservation goals in a variety of ways:
Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants help state and local governments acquire Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War battlefield land.
Battlefield Interpretation Grants assist recipients in their efforts to modernize and enhance education and interpretation at Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War battlefields.
Battlefield Restoration Grants provide funds to return Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War landscapes back to day-of battle conditions.
Preservation Planning Grants fund projects related to planning, interpreting and protecting any battlefield or site associated with armed conflict on American soil. They are not limited to the three wars above.
Battlefield preservation enables current and future generations to better understand the connection between military conflicts and important social and political changes that occurred in American history. Saving the site of every military conflict that occurred on American soil is impractical. However, ABPP is committed to helping states and local communities preserve their most important sites of armed conflict for future generations.
Kurtz Map (1938)
Kurtz Map (1938)
Map of Atlanta as of 1938 showing the field and fortified lines of the Confederate forces, together with those of the federal armies + the fields of the three major engagements, during the summer of 1864, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967
McPherson's Last Ride
McPherson's Last Ride
Route taken by General McPherson on his "Rendezvous with Death." Map by Wilbur G. Kurtz (1929). Click on image to access article.
Siege of Atlanta (Sherman)
Siege of Atlanta (Sherman)
Sherman's Operation Map
Sherman's Operation Map
Sherman's Operation Map
Atlanta Campaign
Atlanta Campaign
Confederate Fortifications
Confederate Fortifications
Hardee's Night March
Hardee's Night March
Beginning late on July 21, 1864, and throughout the close early morning darkness of July 22, Lt. General William Hardee marched out his entire Confederate corps. The march began with three of Hardee’s four divisions filing out of Atlanta’s outer defenses north of town, consolidating their columns around the modern intersection of Peachtree and Spring Streets and then proceeding south through the then compact downtown of Atlanta (roughly contained within an area of the modern-city bordered by Fulton Street to the south, Northside Drive to the west, Ponce De Leon Avenue to the north and the I-75 / 85 Connector to the east). Just south of the rail terminals downtown, a fourth division—that of Maj. General Patrick Cleburne—joined the tail of the march, completing the corps. Several miles long, and including a full compliment of artillery and a cavalry detachment, this large force would march south beyond the southern perimeter of their outer defenses and out into a then rural countryside. Once beyond the eyes of possible Union scouts, the entire corps would turn back to the north and get into position beyond the left flank of the U.S. Army of the Tennessee. One of three Union armies then closing in on the city, this one had fought its way into a threatening position and astride a vital rail link due east of the city only the previous day. From a point beyond the left of that Union line, Hardee’s force would launch a surprise—dawn—attack. As they “rolled up” the Union left and drove them back in confusion on the center of their line, C.S. Maj. General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham’s Corps would march straight out of the Atlanta defenses and smash into a then—as hoped and planned—’wavering’ Union center. Such ferocious pressure would unhinge the entire Union position and clear the vital railroad-lifeline. This was the plan of the newly installed, overtly aggressive chief of the C.S. Army of Tennessee, Lt. General John Bell Hood. The fate of Atlanta and to a large degree the Confederacy itself would rely on the outcome of this day.
Source: Inheritage Almanack
Hardee's Night March Bike Tour
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