Engraving of the battle by Theodore R. Davis for Harper's Weekly
Date
July 28, 1864
Location
Fulton County, Georgia
Result
Union victory
Belligerents
United States
Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
William T. Sherman Oliver Otis Howard
John B. Hood Stephen D. Lee A. P. Stewart
Units involved
Army of the Tennessee
Army of Tennessee
Strength
13,266 [1]
18,450 [1]
Casualties and losses
642 [2]
3,000 [2]
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Atlanta Campaign
Rocky Face Ridge
Resaca
First Tilton
Rome Cross Roads
Adairsville
Cassville
New Hope Church
Pickett's Mill
Dallas
Gilgal Church
Kolb's Farm
Kennesaw Mountain
Marietta
Noonday Creek
Pace's Ferry
Opelika
Peachtree Creek
Atlanta
Ezra Church
Brown's Mill
Utoy Creek
Second Dalton
Lovejoy's Station
Jonesborough
ATLANTA CAMPAIGN: Atlanta and Vicinity (Summer 1864).A sketch of the Battle of Ezra Church, July 28, 1864.
The Battle of Ezra Church, also known as the Battle of Ezra Chapel and the Battle of the Poor House (July 28, 1864) saw Union Army forces under Major General William T. Sherman fight Confederate States Army troops led by Lieutenant General John B. Hood in Fulton County, Georgia during the Atlanta campaign in the American Civil War. Sherman sent Oliver Otis Howard's Union Army of the Tennessee circling around the west side of Atlanta with the purpose of cutting the Macon and Western Railroad. Hood countered the move by sending two corps commanded by Stephen D. Lee and Alexander P. Stewart to block the move. Before Howard's troops reached the railroad, the Confederates launched several attacks on them that were repulsed with heavy losses. Despite the tactical defeat, the Confederates prevented their foes from blocking the railroad.
From May to July 1864, Sherman's numerically superior Union forces pressed back their Confederate opponents to the outskirts of Atlanta. Dissatisfied with Joseph E. Johnston, the commander of the Army of Tennessee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaced him with Hood. The new commander promptly mounted two major attacks on Sherman's armies in the Battle of Peachtree Creek on July 20 and the Battle of Atlanta on July 22. Both assaults failed with heavy losses on both sides. After Ezra Church, Sherman persisted in his plan to cut the railroads leading into Atlanta for the next month. Hood's army frustrated all Union efforts until the last railroad line was successfully severed on August 31 during the Battle of Jonesborough.
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^ abBonds, Russell, War Like The Thunderbolt, (2009); pp. 200–201
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