Site: Cassville Female College
A large brick structure erected in 1853.
May 19, 1864 skirmishers of Polk´s AC (CSA) withdrew from this ridge E. to Cassvile, When pressed back by Butterfield´s 3rd Division 20th AC (US) from the Hawkins Price house. Battery C 1st Ohio Lt. Art. supported by 73rd Ohio,19th Mich. & 20th Conn. Regt´s occupied the ridge and 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 and the town were burned by Federal Forces Nov. 1864.
GHM 008-21 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.