On Sunday, November 27, 1864, approximately 4,000 Federal cavalrymen commanded by Brigadier General H. Judson Kilpatrick arrived at Ivanhoe Plantation near Waynesboro, Georgia. Ivanhoe resident Catharine Whitehead Rowland and other members of her family were horrified. That night Catharine wrote extensively in her diary about what had occurred, "They were the vilest wretches that ever lived...." A short time later Confederate cavalry led by Major General Joseph Wheeler surpri...sed the foraging Federals. Fighting raged all around the main plantation house. Catharine wrote, "a great number of [bullets] fell in the yard...& one passed through the kitchen."
On Thursday a new interpretive marker entitled "Skirmish at Ivanhoe Plantation" (# L24) was installed on the Ivanhoe Plantation property. For the first time ever this significant event and the diary of its principal eyewitness has been chronicled where this history was actually made. This is the 31st interpretive marker to be installed on the March to the Sea Heritage Trail®: http://www.civilwarheritagetrails.org/…/ga-march-to-the-sea…
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