Polk's HQRS.-May 19, 1864

Here the night of May 19, 1864, the Confederate Generals Joe Johnston, Leonidas Polk and John B. Hood, held a conference, the results of which caused the Confederates to abandon Cassville and to move south of the Etowah. Although Johnston intended to fight here.

Marker erected 1948

By Patriots Of Bartow County

Inscription by Col. Thomas Spencer

Marker can be reached from Mac Johnson Rd. NW, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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