McPherson's Last Ride
	Location: Memorial Drive near East Side Ave, East Atlanta LATITUDE 33.7474802255 LONGITUDE -84.340085365 County: DeKalb   Show map of marker location!!
Marker text shows...         McPHERSON`S LAST RIDE July 22, 1864. When Gen. McPheson heard the firing to the S.E. while at luncheon (Whitefoord Ave. at R.R.), he mounted his horse & sending away most of his staff on various missions, galloped south to this hill. Here, he observed Dodge`s 16th A.C. troops in desperate combat with Bate`s & Walker`s divs. [CSA] in Sugar Cr. valley. Anxious about the left of the 17th A.C. (at Glenwood & Flat Shoals), he proceeded on a road through the pines in that direction, accompanied by an orderly, & Signal Officer, Wm. Sherfy, who reluctantly followed after vainly warning the general that Confederate troops had seized the road. 044-44 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956