Year Erected: 1998

Marker Text*: Otherwise know as the Octagon or Gravel House - an eight-sided stone residence, built in 1856, on the knoll east of here.

May 17, 1864, a rear guard action between Cheatham's Div., Hardee's A. C. [CS] and Newton's 2d Div., 4th A. C. [US] was fought along this road. Eight Tenn Regts, of Wright's, Maney's & Vaughan's [CS] brigades posted here, defended it during several hours of musketry & artillery fire, withdrawing at midnight. Burned by 73d Illinois Regt. [US] next day.

*Marker not in place due to damage or maintenance.