PINE MOUNTAIN, Engagement of. Gen. J. E. Johnston, commanding the Con federate army opposing General Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, abandoned his lines in front of New Hope Church 4 June 1864 and withdrew to a new position prepared by his engineer, run ning west from Brush Mountain to Pine Moun tain and thence southwest to Lost Mountain. Pine Mountain, an isolated hill rising 300 feet above the surrounding country, formed a salient near the centre of this line. Upon Johnston's with drawal Sherman occupied the railroad at and near Acworth, brought up supplies, was joined by General Blair, with two divisions of the 17th corps, and on the 10th moved his whole line forward and closed up on the Con federate position. By the 14th General Thomas, with a part of his line, had worked his way close to Pine Mountain, and during the day General Johnston, with Generals Hardee and Polk, two of his corps commanders, were on the mountains observing the movement, when some of Thomas' batteries opened upon the group. killing General Polk. During the night Johnston abandoned Pine Mountain, placing Bates' division, which had occupied it, in re serve, and on the morning of the 15th it was occupied by Howard's Fourth corps. John ston still held the entrenchments connecting his principal line with Pine Mountain and other de tached works, and at noon both Howard's and Hooker's corps advanced against these, Howard on the left of the mountain and Hooker on its right, driving the Confederates to their main works after a sharp engagement. Hooker then
pushed against the principal line, Geary's divi sion, supported by on the left, and Butterfield's division on the right. The Con federate resistance was very strong, and Hooker was repulsed with a loss of 639 killed and wounded. The Confederates, well covered by log
suffered but slightly. There was brisk and incessant skirmishing until the 18th, Sherman pressing closely and persistently at all points, and on the 19th Johnston was back on a new fine, Hood's corps with its right on the Marietta and Canton road; Loring's (formerly Polk's) on the Kenesaw Mountain, and Hardee's on the left, extending across the Lost Mountain and Marietta road. (See KENESAW MOUNTAIN, BATTLE or; KOLB'S FARM, ENGAGEMENT AT). Consult 'Official Records' (Vol. XXXVIII) ; Cox,