McPherson's attacking column fought up the face of the lesser Kenesaw, but could not reach the summit.

About a mile to the right (just below the Dallas road) Thomas's assaulting column reached the parapet, where Brigadier-General Barker was shot down mortally wounded, and Brigadier-General Daniel McCook (my old law-partner) was desperately wounded, from the effects of which he afterward died.
By 11.30 the assault was in fact over, and had failed.

We had not broken the rebel line at either point, but our assaulting columns held their ground within a few yards of the rebel trenches, and there covered themselves with parapet.

McPherson lost about five hundred men and several valuable officers, and Thomas lost nearly two thousand men.

This was the hardest fight of the campaign up to that date, and it is well described by Johnston in his "Narrative" (pages 342, 343), where he admits his loss in killed and wounded as Total .............