Historical Marker

Augustus Hurt House

Located in the parking lot of the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta · Atlanta · Fulton

Inscription

AUGUSTUS HURT HOUSE. 200 yds. N.E. stood the plantation residence of Augustus F. Hurt (1830-1921), built 1858 and razed by Federal forces, 1864; erroneously cited in Official Records as the Howard house. July 22, 1864. 4th & 23d A.C. troops, in line with Federal advances on Atlanta, occupied this hill, having marched via old Williams Mill Rd. Sherman, together with Howard & Schofield, maintained command posts here during the afternoon while McPherson's Army of the Tennessee fought defensively at & S. of the Ga.

R.R. where two of Hood's corps [CSA] attacked it. Here, McPherson's body was brought from battlefield enroute to burial at Clyde, Ohio. 060-79 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956