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Battle of Brown's Mill (July 30, 1864), US Civil War

McCook, Stoneman and Wheeler

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Maj. General George Stoneman, Jr. (USA) (1822 - 1894)
Ref. :Family links: Parents: George Stoneman (1799 - 1877) Catherine Rebecca Cheney Stoneman (1800 - 1874) Spouse: Mary Oliver Hardisty Stoneman (1836 - 1915) Children: Cornelius McLean Stoneman (1862 ...
Joseph "Fightin' Joe" M. Wheeler, III, Gen. (CSA & USA, post Civil War) (1836 - 1906)
Joseph Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) was an American military commander and politician. He has the rare distinction of serving as a general during war time for two opposing forces: fi...
Brevet Maj. General Edward M. McCook (USA), 5th Territorial Governor of Colorado (1833 - 1909)
Moody McCook (June 15, 1833 – September 9, 1909) was a lawyer, politician, distinguished Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, American diplomat, and Governor of the Territory of Colorado. H...

The Battle of Brown's Mill was fought July 30, 1864, in Coweta County, Georgia, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. Edward M. McCook's Union cavalry, on a daring raid to sever communications and supply lines in south-central Georgia, was defeated near Newnan, Georgia, by Confederate forces under Joseph Wheeler. The failure of McCook's column and a concurrent ill-fated raid by George Stoneman forced William T. Sherman to lay siege to the city of Atlanta.