Atlanta Campaign Rocky Face Ridge MAY 7-12, 1864. Federal frontal attacks failing completely here Sherman ably outflanked the Confederate army, strongly entrenched across Rocky Face ridge and this gap. Whereupon Johnston with great skill reestablished a position by withdrawing to Resaca. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARMTENT OF THE INTERIOR

State Patrol office on U.S. 41 north of I75, Rocky Face, GA, United States

Babb's Settlement. Ante-bellum domain of Joel Babb (1809-1882) - on Mill Cr., foot of Rocky Face at Dug Gap. May 8, 1864. 1 A. M.: Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge's 9th Ky., Grigsby's brigade, Wheeler's cav., descended from Dug Gap & patrolled the roads N. & W. to ascertain if any Federals were there. By 1:30 P. M. Breckinridge found Dogwood Valley swarming with Federals, a brigade of which, in support of Kilpatrick's cav., was enroute S. to Villanow. Later, the 9th Ky., confronted by 2 brigades, Geary's div., 20th A. C., moving E., was forced to retreat to Dug Gap. Geary, reaching this vicinity at 3 p. m., deployed his 2 brigades for the storming of Dug Gap. 155-9 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

Mill Creek Road at Babb's Rd. near the Mill Creek Cemetery, Rocky Face, GA, United States

"Callaway Place" - 1814. Jesse Callaway, soldier of 1812, son of Joseph Callaway, soldier of '76, lived in this house from 1852 to 1867. The house, built with bricks made on the place, remained in the family until after 1900. It is said to have been built about 1814. Callaway, born in Wilkes County in 1796, was a Sergeant in Capt. Jones' Co., Col. Booth's Regiment, Ga. Militia, 1814-15. He was married 4 times and had 18 children, most of them having living descendants in Ga. Deeding this house to his son John in 1867 he moved to another house on his land 2 miles north, where he died in 1875 and is buried in a family cemetery. 155-29C GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

Ga. 201 at Gordon Springs Road, Rocky Face, GA, United States