Maj. William C. Preston C.S.A.
Commanding Artillery Battalion attached to Alexander P. Stewart´s Corps (C.S.A.) - killed in action while supervising placement of two sections of Selden´s Ala. Battery, Lt. Chas W. Lovelace, commanding, near the Embry House, July 20th, 1864, during the battle of Peachtree Creek.
This battery was in support of Reynold´s Brigade (C.S.A.) as it swept N.E. across the Embry Plantation and the road toward the re-entrant angle of the Federal Line N. of the deep ravine.
Maj. Preston, a native of S. Carolina, was the "Willie Preston" of Mary Byokins Chestnut´s, "A Diary of Dixie."
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
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Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.