30. The WALKER MONUMENT, 

on Glenwood Ave. 1¼ miles from Moreland Ave., NE., an upright cannon in a granite base, marks the site where the Confederate General W.H.T. Walker was slain by a Federal picket on the morning of July 22, 1864. General Walker commanded a division of Hardee's Corps, which was moving across the territory in a northwesterly direction to attack the rear of the Federal 17th Corps. While he was reconnoitering to see that his men were in position, his horse mired in a swamp northeast of this point and he risked returning to the main road for faster traveling. Soon after he reached the road, he was shot from his horse by a musket ball. General Walker is buried at Augusta.

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