Foiled On The Flank: Sherman had hoped to swing around the left flank of the Army of Tennessee and get a clean, open route to Atlanta. Joe Johnston, however, skillfully withdrew his men and shifted them to the southwest to block the Union troops and set up the Battle of New Hope Church. At that fight, portions of Lt. Gen. John B. Hood’s Corps, many protected by earthworks, threw back assaults by the 20th Corps, despite being outnumbered 16,000 to 4,500. (Map Graphics © DFL Group 2017)