Battle of Trion Factory
The first Civil War battle in Trion, GA took place on Tuesday September 13, 1863. This battle was the result of weeks of calvary skirmishing and fighting all over Southern Chattooga County and North Alabama. In each of these events, the Union Calvary would press the Confederate calvary attempting to find out where the Confederates would draw the line and make a stand.
On September 15, 1863 there was a cavalry skirmish in Summerville, GEORGIA. After vigorous fighting, the Union cavalry pressed the Confederates north up the Summerville-Lafayette Road toward Trion Factory. As the Federals chased the Confederate horsemen into Trion, a brigade of strategically placed infantry and artillery opened fire on the Union cavalry. The covered bridge across the Chattooga River in Trion is where the Rebels "drew the line" for the Yankees. The fight was brief, and it was bloody. The Confederates lost seven men; the Union lost 55 men. The dead were buried on the battlefield beside the road (now the Trion Cemetery). This is the large area of the cemetery fronting First Street where there are no markers but obviously contain graves. It was once known in Trion as "the unknown soldiers' cemetery"
The battle of Trion Factory was not actually near the mill itself but near the covered bridge across the Chattooga River along the Summerville-Lafayette Road. The Summerville-Lafayette Road at the time passed through what is now the middle of the Triangle Shopping Center parking lot, passing under the milk-dairy aisle of Fisher's supermarket (Suggs Valley Fresh Market), continuing north onto what is now Melba Drive, passing 100 feet west of the Krueger residence, going down the hill into the floodplain of the river, crossing the covered bridge, continuing north through the Trion Cemetery, following Thomas Road north to the intersection with Old Highway 27 at the north Trion city limit, where it continued north following Old 27.
Almost all of the participants of the September 15th fight in Trion would meet each other again on Saturday and Sunday, September 19th and 20th, 1863, as the Union and Confederate armies finally unified for the great battle of Chickamauga.
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