Forrest's Cavalry Corps

Historical marker location:

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia

( Marker is on Jays Mill Road south of Brotherton Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1890

Army of Tennessee. Brigadier General Nathan B. Forrest.

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.