Shakerag is now Peachtree City. There is a marker on Ebenezer Road that denotes this skirmish. It is supposed to be at the site where it happened. It is a private residence now. This site is about two minutes from my house. I took a metal detector into the woods across the street but found nothing but old fencing nails. There is no museum. The Fayette County Historical Society is the closest thing we have for Civil War information but all they have is what is on the marker. There is also a "battlefield" at what was once Browns Mill nearby in Newnan. I have been there but if you didn't know it was a battlefield you wouldn't know it other than a solitary grave marker. Sorry I couldn't be more help. I know exactly where the Dickson and Glass bridges are. At Glass bridge now is a water treatment plant. I know exactly where Whitewater Creek crosses Redwine Road, my mom lives on Redwine. There is a subdivision on the east side of Redwine at that location but woods remain on the west side. Don't know for how long though. May try to run a metal detector through those woods this coming winter. To many copperheads in there right now. There is also another story of a mule wagon train that was bringing down supplies from Atlanta that was burning. Supposedly there were around 800 mules with several hundred wagons. They stopped for the night between 2 and 5 miles west of Fayetteville. McCook's brigade found the wagon train, killed all the mules, and burned the wagons. I am still trying to figure out the exact spot that happened. Have a couple of ideas but it's all speculation. The problem is the geography is a lot different now than it was in those days and there are no maps I have found that say "x" marks the spot. I just know it was 2 to 5 miles west of F'ville somewhere between here, Tyrone and Palmetto.
The maker reads:
It reads: "SKIRMISH AT SHAKERAG. Just before dawn, July 30, 1864, during a daring cavalry raid to cut the last two railroads supplying Atlanta, Union Brig. Gen. Edward M. McCook ordered the 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry to halt near the Asa Mitchell house at Shakerag. While two companies dismounted and began barricading the road where it crested this ridge, Lt. Col. Robert Kelly deployed the rest of his men to hold any pursuing Confederates at bay until daylight. When hoof beats approached in the darkness, they opened fire. Recoiling before "a murderous volley," Confederate Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler ordered Lt. Col. Paul Anderson's 4th Tennessee Cavalry to dismount and attack on foot while troopers from the 8th Texas, 1st Tennessee, and the 9th Tennessee Battalion spurred toward both flanks. Kelly's men repulsed five separate assaults. Both sides suffered many casualties before Wheeler led a headlong charge that broke the Union line, capturing Kelly, about 200 of his men, and routing the rest. These heavy losses destroyed McCook's rear guard. Leaving the wounded with local families, Wheeler continued his relentless pursuit of the raiders toward Newnan. FAYETTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY"
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