On May 24, 1864, the 4th, 20th, and a division of the 14th Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland, en route from Stilesboro, camped in this vicinity and on the 25th marched to New Hope Church. The 23rd Corps, at Sligh's Mill three miles northeast on the night of the 24th, moved by Burnt Hickory late in the afternoon of the 25th and followed the 20th Army Corps to the battlefield of New Hope Church. These troops formed the center and left of Sherman's flanking march around the Allatoona Mountains, which Johnston's Confederate army checkmated at New Hope and Dallas.