Cheatham Hill

The intrenched line of the Confederate Army of Tennessee crossed the road here from June 19 to July 3, 1864. This sector was held by Lt. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee's army corps, with the right of his line at Kennesaw Mountain and the left extending from one to two miles south of this point. On June 27, Cheatham's and Cleburne's divisions withstood an assault by five Federal brigades, the spearhead directed toward a salient angle three-quarters of a mile south, held by Vaughan's and Maney's brigades of Cheatham's division. The Illinois monument to McCook's brigade [US], erected in 1914, stands at the so-called Dead Angle of Cheatham's intrenched line.

Georgia · United States