{"id":1704,"date":"2010-06-11T13:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2010-06-11T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:32:24","slug":"battle-of-kennesaw-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/06\/11\/battle-of-kennesaw-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Kennesaw Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain took place on June 27, 1864 in Cobb county, Georgia when General William T. Sherman <\/a>ordered his forces to attack General Joseph E. Johnston\u2019s<\/a> Army of Tennessee. Sherman, who was unable to dislodge Johnston\u2019s men, was forced to withdraw \u00a0later that day. Some estimates<\/a> put the number of total casualties at 4,000 (3,000 Union, 1,00 CSA). Teachers will find several resources on the National Park Service\u2019s site<\/a>, including a short overview<\/a> of the battle and a Google Earth Tour. This viritual tour shows the location of the Confederate and Union forces on the battlefield\u00a0as well as hiking and horse trails. The Library of Congress also has some resources , including several sketches<\/a> by Alfred R. Waud<\/a> and several <\/a>maps of General Sherman\u2019s Atlanta Campaign<\/a>. In addition, Google Books has several interesting accounts of the battle. William Chamberlin, who served with the Ohio Infantry Volunteers, decribed the impact<\/a> on his regiment:<\/p>\n

\u201cKennesaw Mountain! What soldier who saw it during these days will ever forget its fiery flaming brow? Into how many households does the name bring the gushing tears of sorrow for the loved one whose spark of life went out before that death-dealing giant of Nature? Kennesaw Mountain held Sherman’s army at bay fourteen days during which the loss in killed and wounded was greater than at any previous part of the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Warren, who served in the Missouri Confederate Brigade, described <\/a>the \u201cpoor fellows\u201d in the \u201csolid line of blue\u201d whose attack was repulsed. One can find other primary sources related to this battle in Cornell University\u2019s Making of America, including General Johnston\u2019s account<\/a> and other reports in the Official Records<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain took place on June 27, 1864 in Cobb county, Georgia when General William T. Sherman ordered his forces to attack General Joseph E. Johnston\u2019s Army of Tennessee. Sherman, who was unable to dislodge Johnston\u2019s men, was forced to withdraw \u00a0later that day. Some estimates put the number of total casualties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156,172,12,47],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","category-letters-diaries","category-maps","category-places-to-visit","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}