The Battle of Rocky Face Ridge was fought May 7–13, 1864, in Whitfield County, Georgia, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.

General Johnston had entrenched his army on the long, steep Rocky Face Ridge and eastward across Crow Valley.

When Sherman approached, he demonstrated against this position with two columns while he sent a third one through Snake Creek Gap, to the south, to hit the Western & Atlantic Railroad at Resaca.

Discovering Sherman's flanking movement along the Rocky Face Ridge, Johnston retired from the battle and moved south towards Resaca on May 12.

[3] That purchase expanded the total battlefield acreage acquired and preserved by the Trust and its partners to 926 acres.