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On Sept. 20, 1863, Armstrong's Division of Forrest's Cavalry Corps, under Brig. Gen. Frank C. Armstrong, with Armstrong Brigade under Col. James T. Wheeler and Forrest's Brigade under Col. George G. Dibrell, fought dismounted from a position three quarters of a mile east of this point and to the right of Breckinridge's Division. At 11 o'clock it captured the Union hospitals at the Cloud house and spring, but soon after noon Gen. Gorden Granger's troops, advancing from McAfee's church to assist Gen. Thomas at Snodgrass Hill, drove it away. After those troops passed, Armstrong's Division advanced again, but was driven back a considerable distance east of this road to the ground from which it had shelled Granger's column when it first appeared. From that position it opened fire with fourteen pieces of artillery on an enemy advance and drove it back. It remained there during the afternoon, occasionally engaged with the batteries of Dan McCook's Brigade of Gen. J. D. Morgan's Division, which Gen. Granger had left on the high ground northwest of McDonald's house to protect the Union left.
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