Confederate General Patrick Cleburne's Emancipation Proposal

Historical marker location:

Ringgold, Georgia

( Marker is on U.S. 41, 0 miles south of Crabtree Drive, on the left when traveling north.)

Presented to the High Command - Army of the Tennessee, January 2, 1864.

Georgia was the last of the original 13 colonies to be established. It was founded in 1732, over 100 years after the first English settlement in Virginia.