Hardee's Corps at Kingston
![May 18, 1864. Lt. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee´s A. C. marched from Adairsville on the road parallel to the State R.R. -- turning E. on this rd. to join Polk´s & Hood´s corps [CSA] at Cassville, which had...](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/w7nzJcp5HA7k5u3ZfmXWa4cD_O_n-luJEfEB0wNDESfjpagva0bL26z3tvZjOXoVODKl5YAEiJRz2yEdZDDyNXAP-lH4)
May 18, 1864. Lt. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee´s A. C. marched from Adairsville on the road parallel to the State R.R. -- turning E. on this rd. to join Polk´s & Hood´s corps [CSA] at Cassville, which had moved on the direct Adairsville - Cassville road. Sherman´s [USA] error in assuming that all of Johnston´s army [CSA] had marched from Adairsville, as Hardee had, to Kingston, caused him to order his forces concentrated here -- discovering later that the Confederate Army was 5.5 miles E. at Cassville & not at the river S. of Kingston.
GHM 008-37 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.