In 2010, the LAMAR Institute was awarded a research grant by the American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service to study the battle of Monteith Swamp in Chatham and Effingham counties, Georgia. This report details the background, methods and findings of this study. This investigation addresses the topic of the western defense of Savannah, Georgia by the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) from the advance of the United States Army in December 1864. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., C.S.A., summed up the situation for the Confederacy in Savannah, Georgia at that time.
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