Summers House

SUMMERS HOUSE. Ante-bellum res. of Thomas F. Summers (1812 - 1883), a land-mark of the advance of the left wing of Federal forces upon Confederate positions on & near Kennesaw Mtn. - June 1864. June 9. Garrard's cav. [US] (dismounted), forced withdrawal of Benton's Mississippi Brigade [CS] from positions N. of Big Shanty, to a line at the Summers house - later, to one several hundred yds. S. at the Roberts farm. This latter line became the 1st position of McPherson's 15th, 16th & 17th Corps [US] which were later shifted S. to the Brushy Mtn. line. From June 9 to July 3, 25 dys., Federal & Confederate forces battled on a ten-mile front. 033-46 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954