Trion in Chattooga County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)

Trion Factory

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 6, 2021

1. Trion Factory Marker

Inscription.
Headquarters, First Division
Trion Factory, September 13, 1863 12 p.m.
Maj. W. H. Sinclair: Wheeler's force, that left for Lafayette yesterday on my approach, returned at 2 o'clock this morning to the cross-roads, at junction of Ringgold and Lafayette roads. I cannot, of course, drive them off. They made a stand 3 miles from here, the regiment I spoke of attacking them. I move at once to join you. The road to Lafayette this way is bad. As their cavalry is here, I think, with our forces joined, we may get nearer Lafayette. I will leave a squadron at the junction of the Trion Factory and Broomtown Valley roads to protect that flank.
E.M. McCook
Colonel, Commanding

At forks of Trion and LaFayette roads
[September 13,] 1863 2 p.m.
Colonel McCook, Commanding Cavalry; Colonel:
General Crook directs me to say we went on to Lafayette this morning captured their infantry picket and got all the desired information. Some of my scouts reported a heavy column of infantry cavalry, and artillery passing toward Summerville, on the Lafayette road. If you come in contact with this party, fall back slowly and watch their movements,

Paid Advertisement

Click or scan to see
this page online

and report to General Stanley. He may go to Alpine tonight, and may camp at the Big Spring, about 9 miles from Alpine. Please communicate with me as soon as you get this what you have seen and learned and what you will do.
Respectfully yours,
W.M. Sinclair
Assistant Adjutant-General
September 14, 1863-Confederates reoccupy Trion, this time with a brigade of infantry. Helm's Brigade was commanded by Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm. General Helm was killed in battle five days later at Chickamauga. General Helm was Mary Todd Lincoln's brother-in-law. Abraham and Mary Lincoln mourned the loss of her Confederate relative upon hearing of his death at Chickamauga.

September 15, 1863--At this site on the Summerville-Lafayette road, near the covered bridge across the Chattooga River, the battle of Trion Factory took place. Confederate cavalry and infantry repulsed a brigade of Federal cavalry. Confederate General Joseph Wheeler's records show the Confederate loss was 7 men; Federal loss was 55 men. The dead were buried on the battlefield beside the road (now Trion Cemetery). Trion Factory (now Mount Vernon Mills) is still in operation.

September

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 6, 2021

2. Trion Factory Marker

The Trion Cemetery mentioned in the marker is in the background.

19-20, 1863--The Battle of Chickamauga.

Captions (left to right):
• General Benjamin Hardin Helm
• This image shows the remains of the Civil War era covered bridge at Trion Factory, Georgia around 1892. The stone pier in the center of the river is today but a pile of rocks in the middle of the Chattooga River behind the Trion Cemetery.
• General Alexander McCook

Erected by Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail series list. A significant historical date for this entry is September 13, 1863.

Location. 34° 32.783′ N, 85° 18.132′ W. Marker is in Trion, Georgia, in Chattooga County. It is on 1st Street (Business U.S. 27) 0.1 miles east of 7th Street, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 365 1st Street, Trion GA 30753, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Georgia’s Mountains. It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western

Paid Advertisement

Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the original Cherokee Nation,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: First Cotton Mill In Northwest Georgia (approx. 0.4 miles away); a different marker also named Trion Factory (approx. 0.9 miles away); Valley Store, Broomtown Rd. (approx. 4.4 miles away); Willow Spring (approx. 5.1 miles away); Chattooga County (approx. 5.3 miles away); The Couey House (approx. 5.3 miles away); Summerville, Georgia (approx. 5.3 miles away); Boyles Yard Turntable Named Summerville Railroad Turntable (approx. 5.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Trion.

Credits. This page was last revised on March 8, 2021. It was originally submitted on March 8, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 914 times since then and 44 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on March 8, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.