Battle of Decatur

Marker Text:
During the
Battle of Decatur
July 22, 1864
There was hot fighting in and
around the Old Courthouse which stood
on this square
Wheeler's Cavalry made a
gallant charge here and captured
a battery of Federal artillery
with officers and men

Erected by Agnes Lee Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy
1922


Located on Decatur Square by the Old Courthouse
GPS:
Visited: June 30, 2008

This marker tells the other side of Wheeler's attack. Although it is scant on information, it indicates that Wheeler's men captured the artillery, something that was missing from the Georgia Historical Commission marker. It does not state that it didn't happen, but it does not indicate that it did either. So are we seeing a bias here between the two markers. I mean one of them was installed by the Daughters of the Confederacy group and may be a bit biased. But the other group is representing Georgia history as well and may have the same sort of bias, but maybe tempered a little bit.
I wonder how much money this little piece of brass or cast iron marker with it's granite post would have cost to make and to install in 1922, almost eighty years after the battle. It kind of sheds light into the social makeup in 1922. A ladies group honoring a battle to relieve Decatur seventy eight years before. Maybe one of the only bright spots, to their eyes, in the Battle of Atlanta.