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Battle of Brown's Mill | |||||||
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Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States (Union) | CSA (Confederacy) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Edward M. McCook | Joseph Wheeler | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
First Cavalry Division Army of the Cumberland |
Cavalry Corps Army of Tennessee | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1,250 | 50 |
The Battle of Brown's Mill was fought July 30, 1864, in Coweta County, Georgia, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. Edward M. McCook's Union cavalry, on a daring raid to sever communications and supply lines in south-central Georgia, was defeated near Newnan, Georgia, by Confederate forces under Joseph Wheeler. The failure of McCook's column and a concurrent ill-fated raid by George Stoneman forced William T. Sherman to lay siege to the city of Atlanta.