Battle of Gilgal Church
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The Battle of Gilgal Church was an action during the Atlanta campaign in the American Civil War. The Union army of William Tecumseh Sherman and the Confederate army led by Joseph E. Johnston fought a
Wartime photograph shows Pine Mountain near where General Polk was killed.
William T. Sherman
Leonidas Polk
Historical marker on Pine Mountain
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
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The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. The most significant frontal assault launched by Union Major General William T. Sher
Battle of Gilgal Church
…from Oliver Otis Howard's IV Corps gained a foothold in the Confederate line. On June 19, Johnston's Army of Tennessee fell back to fresh defenses based on Kennesaw Mountain. William T. Sherman directed parts of three armies drawn from the Military Division of the Mississippi in the Atlanta campaign. On April 30, 1864, the…
1891 illustration of the battle
Confederate position at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
"Federal entrenchments at the foot of Kenesaw Mountain"
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Monument