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Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery

Alan and Mike:

Dr. Robert E. Zaworski ["Headstones of Heroes: The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery" (Turner Publishing, 1998) described the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association has having been responsible for removing Confederate dead from their battle field graves "for ten miles around and throughout the city" of Atlanta in the winter of 1868/1869. I take that to mean a ten mile radius around the Historic Oakland Cemetery where they were reinterred as unknowns.

The wounded from Ezra Church were evacuated south. One of my family members [William Robert TEAGLE, Company A, 9th Mississippi Infantry] was among the wounded who were evacuated to the hospitals at Macon where he died of his wounds a couple of weeks later. Robert has a UDC marker in the Confederate section of Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon.

I am having trouble locating "Lick Skillet Road" or "Turner's Ferry" on a Georgia State Highway map, but the Ezra Church site should be on the south side (east side) of the Chattahoochee River and within a 10 mile radius of the cemetery. The Peachtree Creek battlefield is well within this radius. So is East Point.

Let me know your thoughts!

Hugh

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