- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Battle of Pickett's Mill
- Creator:
- Hyun, Jun Suk
- Date of Original:
- 2010-09-10
- Subject:
- Pickett's Mill, Ga., Battle of, 1864
Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site (Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Paulding County, 33.92055, -84.86729
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article on the Battle of Pickett's Mill. The battle was among the more decisive encounters of the Atlanta campaign during the Civil War (1861-65). In May 1864 the Confederate army successfully prevented Union general William T. Sherman's troops from occupying Dallas, in Paulding County, which Sherman sought as a strategic base of operations as he moved toward Atlanta. The battle was the bloodiest to that point in the campaign and by all accounts delayed Sherman's eventual capture of Atlanta by at least a week. Today, the Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site is one of the most thoroughly preserved and interpreted Civil War battlefields in the nation.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/battle-of-picketts-mill/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "40 Watt Club," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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