The Army of the Cumberland swinging around Kennesaw Mountain
Date
June 27, 1864 (1864-06-27)
Location
Cobb County, Georgia
Result
Confederate victory[1]
Belligerents
United States (Union)
CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
William T. Sherman
Joseph E. Johnston
Units involved
Military Division of the Mississippi:
Army of the Cumberland
Army of the Ohio
Army of the Tennessee
Army of Tennessee
Strength
16,225[2]
17,733[2]
Casualties and losses
3,000[3]
1,000[3]
v
t
e
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
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the most significant frontal assault launched by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, ending in a tactical defeat for the Union forces. Strategically, however, the battle failed to deliver the result that the Confederacy desperately needed—namely a halt to Sherman's advance on Atlanta.
Sherman's 1864 campaign against Atlanta, Georgia, was initially characterized by a series of flanking maneuvers against Johnston, each of which compelled the Confederate army to withdraw from heavily fortified positions with minimal casualties on either side. After two months and 70 miles (110 km) of such maneuvering, Sherman's path was blocked by imposing fortifications on Kennesaw Mountain, near Marietta, Georgia, and the Union general chose to change his tactics and ordered a large-scale frontal assault on June 27. Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson feinted against the northern end of Kennesaw Mountain, while his corps under Maj. Gen. John A. Logan assaulted Pigeon Hill on its southwest corner. At the same time, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas launched strong attacks against Cheatham Hill at the center of the Confederate line. Both attacks were repulsed with heavy losses, but a demonstration by Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield achieved a strategic success by threatening the Confederate army's left flank, prompting yet another Confederate withdrawal toward Atlanta and the removal of General Johnston from command of the army.
^NPS
^ abLivermore, pp. 120–21. Eicher, pp. 696–97, gives total army strengths at the beginning of the campaign as 98,500 Union, 50,000 Confederate.
^ abNPS; McMurry, p. 109; Bailey, p. 74. Albert Castel's definitive campaign history lists (p. 319) Union casualties broken down as Logan's corps 586, Newton's 654, and Davis's 824; 17 missing from Logan's corps and approximately 300 prisoners from Newton's and Davis's divisions; 57 and 200 casualties respectively in the XVI and XVII Corps while demonstrating against the Confederate right; and approximately 300 for backup units of the IV and XIV Corps and skirmishers of the XX and XXIII Corps.
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