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12 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. ---Y CASSVILLE jb ) MX < ! X-"X } F"\ JL< N MA" j 4'? rq>7 I ■i llart.n./ \j.-^„ sSt J,|„X \ ! i/( Y I. I \,W' U, "‘ / aW - ,z - - J■- x X A X ■'- pj- ,xX ivM-'A/ / i s.> / XX/, \Q *A ' />kR z-M"'-' 1 / T ' V ' vO 7 ■/i S i Z \ '< r' / \ <|7< }D f U rt X../' L / ' f j aM> A I V ' ' i >,’, *1 7 c OiWW’’*7 V jt.i. s A-iSK/V «i (V*. nff X' hX u ■f , pCn /k FL F v m/ M X/U. \ 44 \ (X ( Y ZtTXTp • '. r >l\ h / ChurehA/"—x ) > A Stilesboroli (pKI \~( J> ; > J w Pflmniref f \\?X >U 1 I I== ' if x Jjv ( \C° I - ZAUumins -,„... U - b - M,n /> H-S Battle ofAflatooifaC’r.XTu f | \ H —</-<<? J k r\— 4-'.— .—L_ i_rC 7>; < 1 _j cXv " •-J oYMin ; Lx? Acworth / i -X 'fe| YffWt X C T <7i/X'X rwopfe M X/?X>k xw^' (<Y t JR. SjMiayXJ Xiittb'W /•7 XXwiZta A"" )/ ' ? I ~ AndersonV.K . |< j '£)jY \ XBuntsviille As ) % , j X^ f * X / l i ia Ve J^u.rhauir^"%»« June\B,lß64/ foWenezerChurch,/ k My J7= Lv i i-ffkxTLrl'itihArd Ke,l, 7M; G : s -k X z Ch. / \X f An 0 <R7 Cros/Bhads dX M z A 3fi\OHvvt-,0 0 . ¥\ < /# mW/ </ 31onah CIiAX (Ch./ / \ AUAtoona) Ch. , Dall7\ .Whitfield.r X \ of / s/, ■7>k M Lcv XA IU M Xfl'C 11 - \ ' ' ' « X,. Mill rif.JhriM S ?^T' ; »lEluzaheth \ JT- y ./ h x Newllopb B^rL>M=-"\ Kt'HNfSAW MT\ L>k/ \/) jXPoMfrrry>= . t -NevwHope p.o. I ETTA X \ / _x\ < Turn-in v 1 ” 11 MVP r A ! ul L-’/b 71 W GJ ■■ ;:, ''' r \ X ZW s^^ / iX\\7V< ®W7AM7I7ax ta ” e/-% nv — szv^^O?o^a^Springs x / Chauey’scr > I l/\ f | I \ °\Tine Bidge^^O^y— 'i y ' "/ \ / \ \ C c vors bMM ~aTxI 'M’Ki x-3kng /k /A t V\ X\# AX \/ A V\L \\l (£f M sMA J fVkA ?H / K’ZfcL \ C. 'A s =aJ3.<l rJ¥~f'SZ / /^ o/ \ Va/ vA | z vs) «Wcl vxJA A \F^xcfeOT MVP OP Ac army operations Z^^ !^sn43pk^??r7>£^^^?l®^! ’ ATLANTA CAMPAIGN ATLANTA XA/XOj<Og®&S|O& SCALE OF STATUTE MILES. ( D^Z^ xx QA G 7?tl S Lay's ROME, cRU ADAIRSVILLEC|fc| o r u se > - 0 - p 2 ( AND VICINITY. nWTWWM . scale or miles. *- w / uw > ■ Everett z 'A(fe- L.JI /'N •/ Kelleys Ch.*-.- S fjrk x -f . i I»IWK a 'xi Ajl UunK “' i A 11 ) A r^’’r > r' ■=s sjZ Jlr.aayu^ssfinv , lJ’ | ■ i RQM E^aflfebiMill QVshnoh (Jlk \\alU BattlcMa^^^2£»'HsiJC r^ j Mlorris<)ns'y ?•- U-NHDL,. rk . uvpiin yygoAiha | *'j h'h MAI thc<VS. NCfUHRu? 4 CU., ARFFBINTING WORaS, BUFFALO, N, V. 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