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Friday morning, May 27, 1864, war came to Malachi Pickett's
farm and mill. Almost 25,000 men fought the terrain, the heat,
the fear and each other in an area that became known as "the
hell hole" to surviving veterans. The fighting was so severe
that the percentage of those killed to those wounded was the
highest in the Atlanta campaign. After General William
T. Sherman's advance on Atlanta was stalled in
a costly battle at New Hope Church on May 25, 1864, he was determined
to move east in an effort to
outflank his opponent, General
Joseph E. Johnston, and open the Acworth Road and other routes
for military operations. Continued...
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