June 27, 1864.

While 8 Federal brigades at Kennesaw Mountain and at Cheatham Hill, made futile attempts to break Johnston's Confederate lines, Schofield's 23rd Union Regiment moved South from Powder Springs road.

This flanking move was opposed by Hood's A. C., (extended below Kolb's Farm), and Ross' cavalry on this the old Sandtown road.

Schofield reached and fortified these crossroads -- a strategic position that posed more of a threat to Johnston's Kennesaw line than the assaults by 8 brigades further North-- a fact noted in Sherman's dispatch to Thomas as "the only advantage of the day"

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