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On September 20, 1863, at 9:30 a.m., Stovall's Brigade of Breckinridge's Division in Hill's Corps, under Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, advanced from a line about 700 yards northeast of Kelly Field and reached this position about 10 o'clock after encountering and driving in two lines of skirmishers. The brigade, including the 1st and 3rd Florida under Colonel William S. Dilworth, 4th Florida under Colonel W.L.L. Bowen, 47th Georgia under Captain William S. Phillips, 60th North Carolina under Lieutenant Colonel James M. Ray, and Mebane's Tennessee Battery under Captain John W. Mebane, then changed direction to face south and, with its right on the Lafayette Road and Adams' Brigade aligned west of the road, advanced into Kelly Field, passed the left flank of the Union line, and gained its rear.
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