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The Hey everyone.

Welcome to the 520th episode of our Civil War podcast.

I'm Rich. And I'm Tracy. Hello, y'all. Thanks for tuning

into the podcast. As you guys will recall with last week's episode, the Battle of Kennesaw

Mountain started on the morning of June 27, 1864. We looked at one part of the action, that is the assault by John Logan's 15th Corps,

but by noon the 15th Corps' attacks had come to an end.

While 15th Corps struggled up the slopes of Pigeon Hill in the area of Big Kennesaw to the north,

Federals from 16th and 17th Corps were formed up into a strong skirmish line

and sent toward the Confederate lines.

William Tocomsa Sherman and Army of the Tennessee commander, James McPherson,

hoped that by applying pressure on the Confederates holding Big Kennesaw,

the troops from 16th

and 17th Corps would prevent the rebels from shifting men around the battlefield and reinforcing

threatened sectors of their lines.

On the far left in this area, Brigadier General's Mortimer Leggett and Walter Gresham

both sent forward a cloud of skirmishers from their 17th Corps divisions to engage the Confederate skirmishers on the northern slope of Big Kennesaw and push them back.

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