On June 27, 1864, while eight Federal brigades at Kennesaw Mountain and at Cheatham Hill made futile attempts to break Johnston’s Confederate line, Schofield's 23d A. C. moved south from Powder Springs Road. Hood’s A. C., extended below Kolb’s Farm, and Ross’ cavalry opposed this flanking move on 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 eight brigades farther north, and Sherman called it “the only advantage of the day” in a dispatch to Thomas.