On Sept. 1, 1864, the withdrawal of S. D. Lee’s A. C. toward Atlanta left Hardee facing the same Federal forces as the preceding day. To meet an attack on his right, he shifted Cleburne’s and Carter’s divisions of the Confederate States to an extended line forming a salient angle north of the Warren house with one from the east side of the railroad. The attack by Davis’ Fourteenth Army Corps of the United States at the salient drove Govan's brigade to a second position, where Hardee’s massed forces withstood not only the Fourteenth but Stanley’s Fourth, which moved in east of the railroad, until night ended the battle and enabled Hardee to withdraw to Lovejoy’s.