United States, Georgia, Cobb County, 33.94147, -84.57667Seibert, David, 1941-20201996/2014Location: Due West Rd. just W. of Acworth/Kennesaw Due West Rds.Text of marker: "MILITARY ACTION AT GILGAL CHURCH. On 15 June 1864 Daniel Butterfield's division of Joseph Hooker's XX Army Corps approached this point via the Sandtown Road (Acworth-Due West Rd.) intending to attack Cleburne's Confederates entrenched here at the Burnt Hickory and Sandtown roads intersection. Due to strong resistance by Cleburne's skirmishers and arrival of night-fall, Butterfield's effort here at Gilgal Church diminished to a probing action. Planned as a coordinated mile wide attack by three 5000 man divisions (Butterfield's, Geary's and William's), on a front extending from Gilgal eastward to Pine Knob, it hoped to break the undermanned Confederate battle line forcing a retreat. A failed attempt, this Federal attack on 15 June resulted in over 550 casualties in Geary's division at Pine Knob and nearly 200 of Butterfield's here at Gilgal Church."image/jpegenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/Historical markers--Georgia--Cobb CountyUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--BattlefieldsMilitary Action at Gilgal Church historical markerStillImage