. Kolb's Farm
. Kolb's Farm
This chapter discusses Sherman's plan, which involved firming up his extreme right wing and advancing it closer to Marietta. Hooker's role in the operation involved extending the Twentieth Corps line southward to the Powder Springs and Marietta Road as Schofield moved the Twenty-Third Corps forward south of that road. The two commanders would link up somewhere near a farmhouse owned by Mrs. Kolb, about four miles from Marietta and almost due south of Hardee's line. Sherman insisted that Schofield maintain control of the intersection of the Powder Springs Road and the road to Marietta at Cheney's House, for he wanted to use the former to move farther south when Johnston abandoned the Kennesaw Mountain Line. Because of that directive, Schofield planned to advance only a portion of his command to the Kolb House while stringing the rest of it out diagonally to maintain connection between the forward unit and those holding the area around Cheney's.
Keywords: Sherman's plan, Hooker, Mrs. Kolb, Johnston, Kennesaw Mountain Line, Kolb House
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