Cassville--The Line of Battle--Hood's Line Not 196 Enfiladed--History of That Conference--Two Lieutenant Generals Invite Their Commander to a Council of War--Johnston Obliged to Fall Back--We Cross the Etowah River--Dallas--New Hope Church--Constant Fighting--Rain, Rain--Death of Lieut. Gen. Polk--Battle of the Latimer House--My Division Occupies Little and Big Kennesaw Mountains--The Battle--Incidents of the Battle--Confederates Save Wounded Union Soldiers from Burning--Kennesaw During Night Bombardment--Col. Martin's Noble Conduct--The Irony of Fate--Maj. Poten and French Soldier CHAPTER XV. Our Army Falls Back from Kennesaw--Confederate "Rebel 212 Yell"--Occupy Works on the Chattahoochee River--A. P. Stewart Appointed Lieutenant General--Assumes Command of the Army of Mississippi--Texas Brigade Fight to Obtain Tools--We Cross the Chattahoochee--Arrival of Gen. B. Bragg--Gen. Johnston Relieved--President Davis's Remark about Relieving Johnston from Command--Johnston's Policy versus Hood's--Battle of Peachtree Creek--We Occupy Atlanta--Battle of Atlanta--S. D. Lee Assigned to Command of Hood's Corps--Gen. Ector Wounded--Capt. Ward Killed--Battle of July 28, 1864--I Apply to Be Relieved from Serving with Hood--Gen. M. Jeff Thompson--Condition of the Camps of United States Troops--Evidence of the Terrible Fire of Small Arms--Evacuation of Atlanta--Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station CHAPTER XVI. From Lovejoy's to Lost Mountain--Big Shanty--Acworth--Destroying 223 Railroad--In the Rear of Sherman--Situation of the Two Armies--Orders to Destroy the Etowah River Bridge--To Fill Up the Railroad Cut at Allatoona--Hood Not Aware that Allatoona Was Fortified and Garrisoned--March to Allatoona--Summons to Surrender--No Answer--Gen. Corse's Report Erroneous--The Fortifications--Strength of Forces--Equalization of Forces--Some Federal Dispatches--The Battle--Corse's Account--Col. Ludlow's Description--Desperate Fighting--The Main Line Captured--Enemy Driven into an Interior Fort--Dispatches from Gen. Armstrong Respecting Movements of the Enemy at Big Shanty--Withdraw to Avoid Being Surrounded by Converging Forces--Corse's Dispatch to Sherman--Provisions--Confederates Three Days and Nights without Rest or Sleep--Pass by the Enemy--Evangelist P. P. Bliss Writes the (Gospel) Hymn, "Hold the Fort"--Hood and His Erroneous Publications in His Book--His Admiration for Corse--My Admiration for the Confederates--The Soldier's Grave--The Lone Grave--Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart's Note in Regard to This Account of the Battle CHAPTER XVII.