Year Erected: 1955

Marker Text: Commanding Artillery Battalion attached to Maj. Gen. Edward C. Walthall's division of Gen. Alexander P. Stewart's Corps (CS) - killed in action while supervising placement of two sections of Selden's Ala. Battery, Lt. Chas W. Lovelace, commanding, near the Embry House, July 20th, 1864, during the battle of Peachtree Creek.

This battery was in support of Reynold's Brigade (CS) as it swept N.E. across the Embry Plantation and the road toward the re-entrant angle of the Federal Line N. of the deep ravine.

Maj. Preston, a native of S. Carolina, was the "Willie Preston" of Mary Boykins Chestnut's "A Diary From Dixie."