LOCATION
: NE corner of Northside Drive and Marietta Street
Surrender of Atlanta, September 2, 1864
LOCATION
: NE corner of Northside Drive and Marietta Street
Georgia
Historical Commission Marker 060-126
Surrender of Atlanta, September 2, 1864
Gen.
Hood with Stewarts A.C. and the Georgia Militia, withdrew from Atlanta September1,
1864. At this point Mayor M. Calhoun, with a committee, tendered the surrender
of the city
to Col. John Coburn, asking protection for citizens and property.
Description from Franklin Garrett's Atlanta And Environs Vol. I - Surrender of Atlanta : p 633-638
Background of Civil War Activity -Sherman's Advance from Dalton to Atlanta