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The Hey, everyone. Thanks for tuning in episode 519 of our Civil War podcast. My name is Rich. And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Welcome to the podcast.

As y'all will recall, last time we talked about Sherman's decision to launch an assault on the

Confederates can assault line. At the end of the last episode, it was Sunday, June 26, 1864, and the Federals were in

position to begin their attacks the next morning.

Confederate Major General Samuel French's division occupied the ground on the left of Loring's

Corps, including Little Kennesot and Pigeon Hill.

On the 26th, French had noted the quiet that had rained along the front lines for much of the day,

but that quiet was shattered on Monday morning when federal artillery began a fearsome cannonade of the rebel lines.

Because of their relatively exposed position on high ground, the Confederate guns on Little

Kinnissau and Pigeon Hill were targeted by the Yankee artillery from the very beginning

of their bombardment. French later wrote that the shelling, quote, unquote, swelled in volume

until, quote, presently, and as if by magic, they're spraying from the earth a

host of men, and in one long waving line of blue, the infantry advanced in the Battle of Kinnisaw

Mountain began. What Samuel French saw the morning of June 27th was the main assault of James McPherson's Army of the Tennessee.

As specified in Sherman's Special Order's 28, McPherson was to press forward at various points,

using skirmishers to advance on Big Kennesaw and keep those rebels occupied,

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