39TH IOWA FALLEN SOLDIERS AT ALLATOONA PASS MEMORIAL PLAQUE

ALLATOONA PASS WAS AN IMPORTANT UNION SUPPLY POINT AND RAILROAD DEPOT. ON OCTOBER 5, 1864, FEDERAL FORCES LED BY GENERAL JOHN CORSE, A NATIVE OF BURLINGTON, IOWA DROVE OFF A FIERCE CONFEDERATE ATTACK. THE IOWA 39TH INFANTRY REGIMENT SUFFERED SEVERE CASUALTIES INCLUDING 43 KILLED, 51 WOUNDED AND 76 CAPTURED. THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT, COL. JAMES REDFIELD WAS FIRST WOUNDED AND THEN SHOT AND KILLED.