Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
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.
The Army of the Cumberland swinging around Kennesaw Mountain
Confederate position at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
"Federal entrenchments at the foot of Kenesaw Mountain"
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Monument
Joseph Eggleston Johnston was an American career army officer, serving with distinction in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) and the Seminole Wars. After Virginia declared secession from the United States, he entered the Confederate States Army as one of its most senior general officers. From 1888 to 1889 he was a vice president, from 1889 to 1890 president, of the Aztec Club of 1847.
Johnston in uniform, c. 1862
Portrait by Benjamin Franklin Reinhart (c. 1860)
Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston in 1869–1870
Johnston statue in Dalton, Georgia, where he took command of the Army of Tennessee