The streets of Waynesboro, Georgia (Burke County) were filled with gunfire and saber slashes on TWO separate occasions in late 1864. On the afternoon of Sunday, November 27, 1864, Union Brigadier General H. Judson Kilpatrick led more than 4,000 cavalrymen into town. Chasing them from the vicinity of Ivanhoe Plantation, where another skirmish had occurred earlier in the day, were more than 2,000 Confederate cavalrymen led by Major General Joseph Wheeler. Damage to the town was... limited as the Southern pursuit kept the Federals moving swiftly.
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Exactly one week later, on Sunday morning, December 4th, Kilpatrick's troopers returned to Waynesboro supported by an infantry division. They drove Wheeler's outnumbered Southerners through the town. A "witness" to BOTH clashes was "The J. D. Roberts Home" on Liberty Street, now home to the Burke County Museum. A new interpretive marker (# L25) is now installed there providing much more detail about these two historic cavalry clashes on the "Left Wing" route of the March to the Sea Heritage Trail®: http://www.civilwarheritagetrails.org/…/ga-march-to-the-sea…
Exactly one week later, on Sunday morning, December 4th, Kilpatrick's troopers returned to Waynesboro supported by an infantry division. They drove Wheeler's outnumbered Southerners through the town. A "witness" to BOTH clashes was "The J. D. Roberts Home" on Liberty Street, now home to the Burke County Museum. A new interpretive marker (# L25) is now installed there providing much more detail about these two historic cavalry clashes on the "Left Wing" route of the March to the Sea Heritage Trail®: http://www.civilwarheritagetrails.org/…/ga-march-to-the-sea…
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