Night coming on, prevented a general engagement, but we drove the Yankee line two miles.
"DEAD ANGLE" The First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiments will ever remember the battle of "Dead Angle," which was fought June 27th, on the Kennesaw line, near Marietta, Georgia.

It was one of the hottest and longest days of the year, and one of the most desperate and determinedly resisted battles fought during the whole war.

Our regiment was stationed on an angle, a little spur of the mountain, or rather promontory of a range of hills, extending far out beyond the main line of battle, and was subject to the enfilading fire of forty pieces of artillery of the Federal batteries.
It seemed fun for the guns of the whole Yankee army to play upon this point.

We would work hard every night to strengthen our breastworks, and the very next day they would be torn down smooth with the ground by solid shots and shells from the guns of the enemy.

Even the little trees and bushes which had been left for shade, were cut down as so much stubble.