The Only Advantage of the Day
![June 27, 1864. While 8 Federal brigades at Kennesaw Mtn. & at Cheatham Hill, made futile attempts to break Johnston´s line [CS], Schofield´s 23d A. C. [US] moved S. from Powder Springs road. This...](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZkxnfWFnk08qHuzSomxhzx8nlj2uW6ZexLA4Q7xAqRNOI3_Ns-Pflka4lJQFtq05TMgcoIMuk4vFj1hfTJJBirT1cLGj)
June 27, 1864. While 8 Federal brigades at Kennesaw Mtn. & at Cheatham Hill, made futile attempts to break Johnston´s line [CS], Schofield´s 23d A. C. [US] moved S. from Powder Springs road. This flanking move was opposed by Hood´s A. C., (extended below Kolb´s Farm), & Ross´ cav. [CS] on this the old Sandtown road.
Schofield reached & fortified these crossroads -- a strategic position that posed more of a threat to Johnston´s Kennesaw line than the assaults by 8 brigades further N. -- a fact noted in Sherman´s dispatch to Thomas as "the only advantage of the day". (38 - IV - 610).
033-62 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
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Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.