Battle of Kolb's Farm - June 22, 1864
A costly Confederate attack here stopped the Union Army's attempt to bypass Kennesaw Mountain. On June 22, 1864, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston sent Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's 13,000 troops...
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Civil War Action Around Latimer's Farm
Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised...
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A Humanitarian Act
After each Union assault on June 27, hundreds of casualties were left between the lines. By afternoon wounded Union soldiers lying hapless near faced a new danger; flames, started by the battle's...
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Interlocking Defenses
This artillery redoubt protected part of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne's Confederate Division. From here Southern trenches zigzagged to the left and right for miles, with cannon batteries placed...
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Assault on Pigeon Hill
Union Attackers failed to split the Confederate army here. On the morning of June 27, 1864, three brigades totaling 5,500 soldiers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois charged toward Pigeon...
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The Atlanta Campaign
Sherman marched south to fight the Confederate Army and siege its supply center. In May 1864, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman led his 100,000-man army from Chattanooga, Tennessee, into Georgia....
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The Fall of Atlanta
Once beyond Kennesaw Mountain, Sherman bore down on the South's railroad and supply hub. After the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, the muddy roads dried, allowing Union Maj. Gen. William T....
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Dueling Cannons
On June 19, Capt. Charles L. Lumsden's Alabama battery on Big Kennesaw Mountain hit a railroad water tower, ”scattering of water and nearby Yankees” - lucky shooting for smoothbore...
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Atlanta - Prize of War
Sherman aimed for the South's Manufacturing and railroad hub. Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman had two objectives during his Georgia campaign of 1864: defeat the Confederate army, and damage...
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Cannon on Little Kennesaw
In June 1864 no pathways existed on Little Kennesaw Mountain. Confederate leaders saw its crest would make an ideal artillery position but only one officer felt that cannon could be hauled up...
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Monument to the Fallen
Union Veterans erect this memorial 50 years after the battle. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on July 27, 1864, caused the Union Army estimated 3,000 killed, wounded, or missing soldiers....
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The Assault Falters
Beaten federals entrenched within 30 yards to the Confederate earthworks. As the Union attack stalled, two surviving Federal colonels hastily discussed retreat. Realizing that withdrawal...
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Colonel Dan
Col. Daniel McCook, Jr., a former law partner of Sherman's before the Civil War, saw the adverse odds facing his troops and recited an ancient Greek poem, Horatius' Speech, to his men before the...
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The Dead Angle
This bend in the Confederate line became the battle's focal point. At 9 a.m. on June 27, 1864, thousands of yelling, blue-clad soldiers charged across the distant field toward the...
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Field Fortification
Confederate engineers and work crews started digging earthworks around the Kennesaw Mountain a few days before the army fell back to this position on June 19. For the next week Southern soldiers...
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Camouflaged Cannons
Tennessee cannoneers positioned two 12 pounder howitzers within this redoubt. Major Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham ordered these artillery crews to camouflage the earthen mounds with cut underbrush and...
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Climax at Cheatham Hill
Confederate defenders here defeated the main Union assault. On June 27, 1864, more than 8,000 Union infantrymen attacked an equal number of well- entrenched Confederates along this low-lying...
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Harker's Attack
Brig. Gen. Charles G. Harker rode into mounted on a white horse while leading a column of eight Union regiments. In previous battles, Harker had four horse killed under him but escaped...
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Clash at Kennesaw
The National Battlefield Park commemorates the Civil War battle fought here and the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. June 27, 1864, dawned hot and muggy. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's 100,000-man...
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United Distributors
Founded in Atlanta in 1940, United Distributors exemplifies the entrepreneurialism that characterized Georgia business during the twentieth century. With the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the...
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