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Battle of Griswoldville (November 22, 1864), US Civil War

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Robert Francis Catterson (1835 - 1914)
Robert Francis Catterson (March 22, 1835 – March 30, 1914) was a doctor, Union Army officer in the American Civil War, state legislator, militia officer, U.S. Marshal, and the 30th mayor of Little Ro...
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...
Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, (USA) (1836 - 1881)
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, achieving the rank of brevet major general. He was later the United States Minister to Chile, and a failed politic...
Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, (USA) (1830 - 1909)
Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating def...
Brig. General Pleasant J. Philips (Georgia Militia) (1819 - 1876)
Jackson Philips (July 3, 1819 – October 12, 1876) was an American planter, banker, and soldier. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, noted for his involvement in the 1864 B...

The Battle of Griswoldville was the first battle of Sherman's March to the Sea, fought November 22, 1864, during the American Civil War. A Union Army brigade under Brig. Gen. Charles C. Walcutt fought three brigades of Georgia militia under Brig. Gen. Pleasant J. Philips, at Griswoldville (an industrial town), near Macon, Georgia, and continued its march toward Savannah.