. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . el Presstman pre-pared for occupation bythe 19th, when it was as-sumed by the army. Inthis position two divisionsof Lorings corps occupiedthe crest of Kenesaw fromend to end, the other divi-sion being on its right, andHoods corps on the rightof it, Hardees extendingfrom Lorings left acrossthe Lost Mountain andMarietta road. The enemyapproached as usual, undercover of successive lines ofintrenchments. In thesepositions of the two armies there were sharp and incessant partial engage
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . el Presstman pre-pared for occupation bythe 19th, when it was as-sumed by the army. Inthis position two divisionsof Lorings corps occupiedthe crest of Kenesaw fromend to end, the other divi-sion being on its right, andHoods corps on the rightof it, Hardees extendingfrom Lorings left acrossthe Lost Mountain andMarietta road. The enemyapproached as usual, undercover of successive lines ofintrenchments. In thesepositions of the two armies there were sharp and incessant partial engage-ments until the 3d of July. On the 21st of June the extension of the Federalline to the south which had been protected by the swollen condition of NosesCreek, compelled the transfer of Hoods corps to our left, Wheelers troopsoccupying the ground it had left. On the 22d General Hood reported thatHindmans and Stevensons divisions of his corps, having been attacked, haddriven back the Federal troops and had taken a line of breastworks, fromwhich they had been driven by the artillery of the enemys main Z>TM CONFEDERATES DRAGGING GUNS UP KENESAW MOUNTAIN. FROM THE VALENTINE, PUBLISHED BY THE WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. CO. 272 OPPOSING SHERMANS ADVANCE TO ATLANTA. Subsequent detailed accounts of this affair prove that after the capture ofthe advanced line of breastworks General Hood directed his two divisions against the enemys main line. The slow operation of a change of frontunder the fire of the artillery of this mainline subjected the Confederates to a lossof one thousand men—whereupon the at-tempt was abandoned, either by the gener-als orders or by the discretion of the the 24th Hardees skirmishers wereattacked in their rifle-pits by a Federalline of battle, and on the 25th a similarassault was made upon those of Steven-sons division. Bothwere repulsed, withheavy proportion-ate losses to the as-sailants. Iu the morning ofthe 27th, after a can-nonade by a
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