Believing the Confederates must be stretched thin in their defensive positions centred on Kennesaw Mountain, Sherman launched attacks to find a weakness.
General Thomas was ordered to advance in the centre where a hill formed a salient in the Confederate line. This ridge line came to be known by soldiers on both sides as 'The Dead Angle.'
This painting shows Union regiments attacking mid morning, crossing open fields. At the top of a steep hill, the entrenched men of the 1st and 27th Tennessee regiments of Maney's brigade wait.
Union canon fired from the tree line over the heads of the attacking Union troops.
On the left of the scene, the Union attack falters under heavy fire while on the right the 52nd Ohio lunge towards the Rebel parapet.
In less than a half-hour, the Union lost 1800 men including General McCook, three times the number of Confederate losses.
Many soldiers lay trapped on the hillside until nightfall.
Sherman hoped to attack again the next day but was convinced by general Thomas that'one or two more assaults would use up his army.'

FROM: Osprey Publishing's, 'Atlanta 1864'

PRICE: £670.00 (unframed)
SIZE: Image approx. H 33 cm x W 48 cm (H 13 x W 19 inches)
MEDIUM: Watercolour and gouache