Stevenson's Line
![During demonstrations on Rocky Face and in Crow Valley, by 4th & 23d A.C. troops [Federal], the N. line of Dalton´s defense works crossed the road here. Stevenson´s div. (Hood´s A.C.)...](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/g55X0NfcY0EMZiLmatjizsatNLQUmBpibtEo_rNCRrzvj0nkZLg1pUsuLKY059o1ijTGbNaSvV28rKNT3Ggy3ZDHmH8)
During demonstrations on Rocky Face and in Crow Valley, by 4th & 23d A.C. troops [Federal], the N. line of Dalton´s defense works crossed the road here. Stevenson´s div. (Hood´s A.C.) [Confederate] held this sector, his left at Cheathem´s line, at Signal Station on Rocky Face; his right, at Ault´s Creek, E.
May 9, 1864. Stevenson´s men repulsed the 23d A.C. in Crow Valley, & the desperate attempt by Harker´s & Wagner´s brigades, Newton´s div., 4th A.C., to break the left of Stevenson at & near the top of Rocky Face, where Pettus´ & Brown´s brigades were posted behind stone breastworks
GHM 155-20 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1985.
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.