page_title: Battle of Lovejoy's Station
section_title: The battle
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Lovejoy's Station / The battle
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of battlefield core and study areas. The ABPP completely redrew the 1993 boundaries for Lovejoy’s Station. The new Study Area gives a more complete picture of the Federal approach from the northeast toward Lovejoy’s Station, and the Confederate response along the Macon &amp; Western Railroad. The Study Area was expanded to the east to include the fighting at Nash Farm and the rearguard action at Walnut Creek. The Core Areas for both of those engagements were delineated based on recent archaeological studies.
context_page_description: The Battle of Lovejoy's Station was fought on August 20, 1864, near what is now Lovejoy, Georgia, in Clayton County, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. The two sides had arrived at something of a stalemate, with the Union army half-encircling Atlanta and the Confederate defenders staying behind their fortifications.
context_section_description: While Confederate Cavalry commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler was absent raiding Union supply lines from North Georgia to East Tennessee, Union Army commander Major General William T. Sherman sent cavalry Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick to raid Confederate supply lines. Leaving on August 18, Kilpatrick hit the Atlanta & West Point Railroad that evening and disabled a small area of the track. Next, he proceeded for Lovejoy's Station on the Macon & Western Railroad. In transit, on August 19, Kilpatrick's men attacked the Jonesborough supply depot on the Macon & Western Railroad, burning great amounts of supplies. On August 20, they reached Lovejoy's Station and began their destruction. Confederate Infantry Dan Reynolds's Arkansas Brigade appeared and the raiders were forced to fight into the night, finally fleeing to prevent being surrounded. Although Kilpatrick had destroyed supplies and track at Lovejoy's Station, the railroad line was back in operation in two days.
caption: Map of Lovejoy's Station Battlefield core and study areas by the (American Battlefield Protection Program).
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