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Billy Johnson - The Battle Of Kennesaw
June 27, 2011 - The Battle Of Kennesaw was fought 147 years ago today, just a few miles outside the town of Marietta, Georgia. Just for the record, when the battle was fought on June 27, 1864 there was no town of Kennesaw. The town was formally founded in 1887.
The battle pitted Union Major General William Sherman's forces, numbering approximately 100,000, against the troops of Confederate General Joseph Johnson, whose force was about half the size of Sherman's. All told, 4,000 died in the conflict (about 3,000 of them were Union soldiers).