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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WESTPT_980930_01.JPG: West Point; Fort Tyler
2. WESTPT_980930_02.JPG: West Point; Fort Tyler
3. WESTPT_980930_03.JPG: West Point; Fort Tyler
4. WESTPT_980930_04.JPG: West Point; Fort Tyler
5. WESTPT_980930_05.JPG: West Point; Fort Tyler; UDC marker close-up
6. WESTPT_980930_06.JPG: West Point; Fort Tyler; UDC marker close-up
7. WESTPT_980930_07.JPG: West Point; Pinewood Cemetery
8. WESTPT_980930_08.JPG: West Point; Pinewood Cemetery
9. WESTPT_980930_09.JPG: West Point; Pinewood Cemetery; Marker
10. WESTPT_980930_10.JPG: West Point; Pinewood Cemetery; Marker
11. WESTPT_980930_11.JPG: West Point; Hawkes Library
12. WESTPT_980930_12.JPG: West Point; Hawkes Library
13. WESTPT_980930_13.JPG: West Point; Depot
14. WESTPT_980930_14.JPG: Markers for Robert C. Tyler and his second in command, C. Gonzalez, both killed during the battle of West Point.
15. WESTPT_980930_16.JPG: Fort Tyler Cemetery: One hundred feet easy in brick walled enclosure are buried 76 brave men, Confederate and Federal, killed or died of wounds in the siege of Fort Tyler. This engagement occurred April 16, 1865, a whole week after the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. only 19 of these graves are marked with names or initials. In the northeast corner are buried General R.C. Tyler and Captain Gonzalez who were killed while commanding the forces defending Fort Tyler against great odds.
16. WESTPT_980930_17.JPG: Gen. Robert C. Tyler, CSA: Colonel of the 15th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (June 1861), Brigadier General (February 1864), he fought with gallantry in the Battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge. In these engagements, he was wounded three times and captured four guns at Chickamauga. General Tyler, on crutches from the loss of a leg at Missionary Ridge, commanded the Confederate forces in the Battle of West Point, Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865. He was killed by Federal gunfire in the battle and was buried here.
17. WESTPT_980930_29.JPG: Colonel Oscar H. LaGrange: Oscar Hugh LaGrange was born in New York but migrated to Wisconsin prior to the war. ... [Serving with Sherman's forces during the Atlanta campaign], LaGrange was wounded and captured at Rocky Face Ridge in north Georgia and spent several months in Confederate hospitals and prison camps. He was exchanged in time to participate in the last, and largest, cavalry campaign of the war. ... As the main Federal Column marched on Columbus, LaGrange's brigade ... was chosen to capture West Point, with its valuable railroad yards and bridges. .... Colonel LaGrange showed remarkable courtesy toward both civilians and captured Confederate soldiers. He posted guards to protect civilian property, spared the railroad car shed from burning because of its proximity to the local hotel, and even ordered his troopers to roll burning rail cars away from private buildings....
18. WESTPT_980930_30.JPG: Wilson's Raid: In the spring of 1865, the Southern Confederacy was near collapse. It was clear that in Virginia and the Carolinas, Northern numbers would soon overwhelm the armies of Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston. Southern strategists considered abandoning their lines around Richmond that they had held for four years and falling back to a new defensive line that stretched across the deep south, along the fall line, from Augusta, Georgia to Meridian, Mississippi. On March 22, 1865, General James Harrison Wilson's 10,000 man Federal cavalry corps rode out of their camps along the Tennessee River near Chickasaw, Alabama. Their objective was to render untenable the deep south line. Their first major target, the industrial center of Selma, Alabama, fell on April 2nd after a sharp clash with Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Montgomery surrendered on April 12th. Wilson's next objective was Columbus, Georgia, with its mills and armories. The Chattahoochee River was potentially a great obstacle to his progress. While General Emory Upton's Division marched on Columbus, the brigade of Colonel Oscar LaGrange was dispatched to secure the bridges at West Point. If the Federals found Columbus too strongly defended, the West Point bridges would provide an alternate crossing. LaGrange's vanguard, a battalion of the 2nd Indiana Regiment, followed the 4th Indiana and a section of the 18th Indiana Battery, marched from Auburn, Alabama, twenty-five miles southwest of West Point, at 2am on April 16, 1865. When news of the Federals' approach reached West Point commandant General Robert C. Tyler, he posted a line of pickets on the outskirts of town and with the remainder of his garrison occupied the earthen fort which was situated on a hilltop at the northern edge of town. The fort, which was about thirty yards square, had been constructed in the autumn of 1863. Its three artillery pieces covered the bridges and town that sprawled over the river bottom. The Indiana troopers reached West Point at about 10am and drove Confederate pickets into the fort. Colonel LaGrange arrived with the balance of the brigade, the 1st Wisconsin and 7th Kentucky, at about 1pm. While LaGrange let the 4th Indiana in a mounted charge through town and across the wagon bridge, the other regiments assaulted the fort on foot. Confederate defenders resisted until 6pm when, with their commander dead and their ammunition nearly exhausted, they were overrun. Eighteen Confederates were killed while the Federals lost seven killed and twenty-nine wounded. Learning that Columbus had fallen the same evening, the victorious Yankees burned the railroad depots and destroyed nineteen locomotives and two hundred forty-five cars. On April 17th, they exploded the fort's powder magazine, burned the Chattahoochee bridges, and resumed their eastward march. The united Federal column reached Macon, Georgia, on April 20th where they learned of the surrender of Confederate forces in Virginia.
19. WESTPT_980930_35.JPG: [Marker in front of the Hawkes Library to the inspiration for the "Daughters of the Confederacy".] At West Point, Georgia, the term "Daughters of the Confederacy" was used here on April 30, 1886, by General John B. Gordon, to introduce Winnie Davis. The title became the name of the present patriotic organization. Erected by Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, September, 1937.
20. WESTPT_980930_38.JPG: Railroad depot
Wikipedia Description: West Point, Georgia
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West Point is a city in Harris and Troup Counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,382.

Its first name was Franklin (there is now another Franklin, Georgia). The town's current name comes from being near the westernmost point on the Chattahoochee River, where its southwestward flow from the mountains and by Atlanta quickly turns toward the south-southeast to form the state line with Alabama. Lake West Point was created by the Army Corps of Engineers at this point for flood control, just upstream from the town, which flooded when the dam nearly overflowed in late spring of 2003. Excessive thunderstorm rains upstream in the Atlanta metro area the day before, combined with the same situation locally that day, in addition to allegedly poor forecasting of lake levels and inflow, would have exceeded the capacity of the lake and topped the dam had the emergency release not been made. While this avoided an outright dambreak and catastrophic failure, the town flooded more so than any time since the dam had been built. Still, the town was spared a much worse fate, as flooding would have been seriously worse without the dam.

The Atlanta & LaGrange Railroad was renamed the Atlanta & West Point Railroad for the town, and the town of East Point was named so for being at the opposite end of the line near Atlanta.
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