Tom Harvey naps in a hammock at the Chattahoochee River bank in the west platform camp site while wife Tina takes a walk in the woods at Chattahoochee Bend State Park.
at the railroad depot on East Broad Street, dismounted Alabama cavalry opened fire. McCook’s men fell back and he decided to detour to the southwest around Newnan. As the Union column approached the intersection of what is now Old Corinth Road at Millard Farmer Road, Wheeler’s men opened fire on the Union advance guard, thus beginning the Battle of Brown’s Mill. An estimated 4,000 cavalrymen fought with each other back and forth across the road and in the woods for
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about five hours, Parker said. The battle ended when McCook advised his men to either surrender or organize a retreat for the river. The men chose to retreat rather than voluntarily face imprisonment at Andersonville or Macon. McCook, his officers and troops splintered into four groups to escape across the Chattahoochee at several different crossings, Parker said. The 8th Iowa covered their escape and nearly all of the Iowans were captured. Wheeler pursued the raiders and over
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The July 30, 1864, battle was between the cavalry of Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate John Bell Hood, Parker related. Union General Edward M. McCook and 3,000 cavalrymen had been ordered to ride 40 miles southeast of Atlanta to tear up the Macon Railroad. He and his men were to meet General George Stoneman and wreck the railroad so that it could not be used to supply Hood’s army defending Atlanta. Stoneman was prevented from joining McCook, so McCook and his men tore up as much railroad as they could before learning that Confederate General Joseph Wheeler and his cavalry were headed in their direction. McCook decided to return to Union Headquarters in Marietta via the Chattahoochee River crossing west of Newnan. Wheeler chased McCook all the way from Lovejoy’s Station to Newnan. As McCook approached Newnan