Year Erected: 1953

Marker Text: May 18, 1864. The 4th, 14th & 20th Corps (Army of the Cumberland) [USA], together with the 15th & 16th corps (Army of the Tennessee) [USA], reached Adairsville from Resaca, at noon.

Sherman, convinced that all of Johnston's forces [CSA] had gone to Kingston & Etowah River crossings S. of it, directed his forces to converge there.

McPherson's Army of the Tennessee moved to Barnsley's; the 4th and 14th by direct road to Kingston; the 23d [USA] (at Mosteller's Mills, 5 mi. E.) & the 20th, were shifted S.W. across the Gravelly Plateau.