On May 18, 1864, the 4th, 14th, and 20th Corps of the Army of the Cumberland and the 15th and 16th Corps of the Army of the Tennessee reached Adairsville from Resaca at noon. Sherman, convinced that all of Johnston's forces had gone to Kingston and the Etowah River crossings south of it, directed his forces to converge there. McPherson's Army of the Tennessee moved to Barnsley's; the 4th and 14th went by direct road to Kingston; and the 23rd, at Mosteller's Mills five miles east, and the 20th were shifted southwest across the Gravelly Plateau.