- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Site - Cassville Female College historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Bartow County
Women's colleges--Georgia--Cassville
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bartow County, Cassville, 34.24482, -84.85216
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: U.S. 41 at Willow Lane, Cassville
Text of marker: "SITE - CASSVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE. A large brick structure erected 1853. May 19, 1864: Skirmishers of Polk's A.C. withdrew from this ridge E. to Cassville when pressed back by Butterfield's (3d) Div., 20th A.C., from the Hawkins Price house. Battery C, 1st Ohio Lt. Art., supported by 73d Ohio, 19th Mich. & 20th Conn. Reg'ts occupied ridge & shelled the town as Johnson's Army withdrew to ridge E. of it. At night Cassville was seized by the 19th Mich. & 20th Conn. Female College & town were burned by Federal forces, Nov. 1864. 008-21 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_site-cassville-female-college
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_site-cassville-female-college
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
