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As you guys will recall with the last episode, we finished up talking about the attacks of the Federal's 15th, 4th, and 14th Corps at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia on June 27, 1864.

And we discussed the importance of troops from Schofield's Army of the Ohio, using Sandown Road to the south to work their way around the Confederate left flank

that day. And we said that by the end of the day on the 27th, since his frontal attacks against

the Confederate lines had been uniformly unsuccessful, William Ticompsa Sherman had decided to put

together a new plan to take advantage of the opportunity represented by Schofield's flanking maneuver.

Exactly.

Well, Sherman was convinced reinforcing Schofield's success and moving around the Confederate left in strength would force Joe Johnston to either abandon his strong

position at Kennesaw Mountain or remain in place and risked total defeat. But before Sherman could

set his new plan in motion, he knew he'd have to spend a few days accumulating supplies so that he

could cut himself off temporarily from the railroad

and push large numbers of troops along the Sandtown Road. Meanwhile, on the federal side,

the survivors of the failed attacks tried to make the best of their situation for the rest of

the day on June 27th. As battered units on the front lines tried to

settle down and consolidate their positions, medical personnel behind the lines worked hard to care

for the wounded. Earlier that day, wounded men had begun to trickle back to the federal

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