History UnderfootAtlanta
  • Headquarters
  • Civil War
  • August 26, 1864
  • Location approximate

Logan's headquarters and Army of the Tennessee camp (Judge Wilson plantation)

The first night's camp of the Army of the Tennessee on its march around Atlanta to the railroads, with Logan's XV Corps headquarters in Judge William A. Wilson's house.

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The record

After the siege was lifted, the XV, XVI and XVII Corps camped on and near the Wilson plantation on Aug 26 on their way to Fairburn and Jonesboro. Logan made his headquarters in the Wilson house, built in 1857 and demolished in 2015. The marker (060-164) stands on Fairburn Rd 0.2 mile south of Benjamin E. Mays Dr.