During the battle of Ezra Church, Private Harry Davis of the Forty-Sixth Ohio Infantry, a twenty-three year old Columbus, Ohio native, captured the flag of the attacking Fortieth Louisiana Infantry of General John Bell Hood's Army of the Tennessee. General John Logan later presented the flag to Private Davis and he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor the following December. Henry Clay Davis survived the war and died in 1929. (By John Osborne)   

During the Union movements around Atlanta, Confederate General J. B. Hood tried to catch Union General Oliver Howard's Army of the Tennessee on the march but was met only by entrenched Union troops near a chapel in Fulton County, Georgia.  Although they did protect the rail line that was the main Union target, the attack was a disaster for Hood's men who lost around 3000 of their number.  Howard lost less than 700 killed and wounded in the day-long fighting. (By John Osborne)  

In the morning hours, an ammunition barge docking at the Union supply depot at City Point, Virginia suddenly blew up in a massive explosion.  It is estimated that more than 30,000 heavy shells and 75,000 rounds of rifle ammunition were detonated almost instantaneously, killing 43 people and wounding scores more.  The cause remained unknown till after the war when former Confederate operatives detailed to Union officials how they had smuggled a bomb with twelve pounds of gunpowder and a timer aboard the craft.  (By John Osborne)