W. H. D. Rouse
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for a few minutes fighting was suspended along that short stretch of the line and some of martin's soldiers went to assist in moving their helpless enemies away from the flames when the wounded had been removed to safety the two sides resumed hostilities but here too it was clear that the attack would not be able to break johnston's lines
At the dead angle, some of the attacking northerners remained under the crest of the ridge within a few yards of the Confederate trenches.
There they dug rifle pits of their own and started to burrow under the hill, hoping to fill the tunnel with gunpowder and blow up the salient.
However, before this project had progressed very far, the southerners abandoned the position and thus rendered the subterranean attack unnecessary.
While the attacks of McPherson and Thomas were being repulsed, Schofield was gaining a clear success at the extreme right of the Union line.
On the 26th, one of his brigades crossed Ollie's Creek, north of Sandtown Road, and on the following day cleared their opponents from the area, securing a position several miles to the south, which placed the right of their line closer to the Chattahoochee than was the left of Johnston's army.
from this position the northerners could strike at the confederate line of supply and perhaps cut johnston off from all sources of help by breaking the railroad exact casualty figures for the battles of june twenty seventh are not available however the best estimates place northern losses at about three thousand men the southerners lost at least seven hundred and fifty killed wounded or
has been criticized for ordering the frontal attack on Johnston's lines, but it now seems that his decision was not unwise.
Had the assault succeeded, he would have won a great victory.
As it was, he did not continue the attacks when it was clear that they would fail.
and he had managed to secure a position from which he could easily pry johnston out of the kenesaw line across the chattahoochee
The success won by Schofield at Ollie's Creek indicated the direction for the next federal movement.
Sherman quickly decided to shift troops to his right, knowing that such a move would force Johnston to choose between giving up the Kennesaw Line or being cut off from Atlanta.
Accordingly, he began to reinforce Schofield by moving McPherson from the left to the right.
By the afternoon of July 2, federal troops were pushing southward on Sandtown Road,
against only light opposition from small confederate detachments johnston was aware of what was happening in fact he had expected such a movement since the failure of the assault on the twenty seventh believing that it would be unwise to stretch his lines further and realizing that the troops opposing the federal advance could do no more than delay it johnston decided to abandon his kenesaw mountain position
and fall back to a previously prepared line near smyrna four miles to the south accordingly during the night of july two three the confederates filed out of their trenches around marietta and marched southward when sherman discovered that the southerners were gone he pushed forward in pursuit hoping to strike while the enemy was retreating in the late afternoon of the third the northerners reached the new confederate line
the fourth was spent in skirmishing but before a serious battle could develop the federal right secured a strategic position from which it threatened to slice in between johnston's army and atlanta again the threat to his left forced johnston to retreat during the night of july four five
the southerners fell back to a heavily fortified position on the north bank of the chattahoochee on the fifth the federals pushed forward until they reached the new southern whine skirmishing that day convinced sherman that the position was too strong to be carried by a headlong assault he dispatched a cavalry force to seize roswell an important little manufacturing town
about sixteen miles up river from johnston's fortifications and allowed his men a few days rest while he planned the next move after carefully studying the situation the federal commander decided to attempt a crossing near the mouth of soap creek above johnston's right flank
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