Kilpatrick raids the Macon and Western at Jonesborough and Lovejoy
August 20, 1864, Lovejoy's Station, Georgia.
- Date
- August 20, 1864
- Where
- Lovejoy's Station, Georgia
- What happened
- Raided
- Event
- 123 of 174
Kilpatrick's cavalry tore up track on the Atlanta and West Point on August 18 and on August 19 burned great amounts of supplies at the Jonesborough depot on the Macon and Western. On August 20 they wrecked track and supplies at Lovejoy's Station until Cleburne's infantry drove them off. The line was running again in two days.
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