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On June 19, 1864, when Johnston’s Confederate forces moved to a third position on the Kennesaw front, their defensive works included the mountain. The line bore northeast and east to the Canton Road and extended southward below the Dallas Road. The left of French’s division of Loring’s Army Corps, posted on the mountain, rested on this road, where the right of Hardee’s Army Corps, Walker’s division, joined. On June 27, the left of French and the right of Walker withstood assaults by three Federal brigades moving east astride the Burnt Hickory Road in a vain effort to break the line here, at the same time as an attack at Cheatham Hill two and a half miles to the south.
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