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Mountain, his center on Pine Moun
tain and his right on the ridges just
northward of Kennesaw Mountain.
For about a month there was daily
fighting in this vicinity. The Con
federates planted batteries upon Ken
nesaw Mountain, seven hundred feet
above the surrounding hills.
While Sherman’s superiority of num
bers enabled him, by the extension of
his lines, to force a gradual and con
stant retrogression of Johnston’s, yet
he could do nothing which secured the
dislodgment by force of the Confeder
ates from their lofty perch on the twin
crests of Kennesaw Mountain, the cit
adel of North Georgia.
On the 27th of June, 1864, ensued
the great battle of Kennesaw Moun
tain, which resulted in a general Fed
eral repulse.
Sherman then made a movement in
heavy force to the southwest, down the
Sand town road, which, by threaten
ing the Western & Atlantic Railroad
below Marietta, forced Johnston, on
the 3d of July, to evacuate Kennesaw
Mountain and Marietta, and retire to
a new position north of the Chatta
hoochee river.
During this change of position, en
sued the battle of Smyrna, July 4.
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After sharp fighting before Johnston’s
entrenchments, Sherman extended his
lines a number of miles northward and
southward, securing possession of
one or two fords across the Chattahoo-
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
chee river. The Confederates then
fell back to the entrenchments around
Atlanta.
The Confederate government, just at
this juncture, took the fatal step of re-
moving Johnston from command, and
appointing Hood in his stead. Hood
changed Johnston’s Fabian tactics,
and with an army scarcely more than
half as large as Sherman’s, assumed the
offensive, and the desperate battle of
Peachtree creek ensued on July 20,
which resulted in a Confederate reverse.
Next followed the battles of the 22d
and 28th of July around Atlanta,
and afterwards the fighting along the
line of the Central Railroad at Jones
boro and Lovejoy’s, and the subsequent
evacuation of Atlanta.
During the fall of that year ensued
Hood’s eccentric campaign in Sher
man’s rear over nearly the same ground
through Georgia into Tennessee. Dur
ing these movements occurred the bat
tle of Allatoona and others.
It is proper to state that between
Chattanooga and Atlanta there is not
a mile-post on the Western & Atlantic
Railroad which was not within sound
of musketry firing during the campaign,
and there is not a cross-tie whereupon
one standing could not have heard the
sound of artillery firing.
It may be here remarked that the
Western & Atlantic Railroad was the
means of securing the fall of Atlanta,
and, therefore, to a great degree, the