July 2004

Battle Report

6th Edition

_{Published by the Fort Attaway Preservation Society, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Rome, Georgia’s Fort Attaway.} 

UPDATE

Since July 14th, we have been to the Atlanta offices of the DOT and the DNR-Historic Preservation Division to copy documents out of their Fort Attaway files under the Open Records Act. As some of you know, we also did this back in August of 2003.

On our way home from Atlanta, we stopped by the Allatoona Pass Civil War site as we have been told that it is comparable to Fort Attaway. An important similarity is the fact that the same Confederate Generals that had defended Rome in May of 1864 attacked the Union army at Allatoona in October later that year: Gen. Samuel French and Gen. Armstrong.  After looking at the Star fort at Allatoona we could see clear physical similarities between the two forts' berms and ditches. A picture of the Star fort that had been taken during the Civil War and shows how the dirt berms were built and maintained.

Allatoona Pass after the battle on October 5, 1864