Richard Peters' Plantation
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Belmont and Plantation Drive, Calhoun text of marker: "RICHARD PETERS' PLANTATION. May 16, 1864 Williams' 1st and Geary's 2d divs., 20th A. C. [USA], crossed the Coosawattee at McClure's Ferry near Pine Chapel, & night of the 17th, reached this cross-roads - Buschbeck's brigade of Geary's div. camping on the Peters plantation.
These troops, together with the 4th & 14th Corps [USA] on the Atlanta road 1 mile W., were of the Army of the Cumberland & center of Sherman's advance S. from two days of the battle at Resaca. The 4th & 14th Corps marched to Kingston; the 20th, to Cassville. 064-25 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953
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