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The 1st Ohio Infantry, in Baldwin’s Brigade of Johnson’s Division, 20th Army Corps, under the command of Lieut. Col. Bassett Langdon, advanced with its brigade from the Kelly place to this position at 12:00 M. on Sept. 19, 1863. It took part in the fighting during that advance and in resisting an attack from 6:30 to 7:30 PM by Cleburne’s and part of Cheatham’s divisions. On Sept. 20 it held a position east of the Kelly field from daylight until it was ordered to retire to Rossville in the evening, while the division was temporarily attached to the 14th Army Corps. Its losses were 13 killed, 96 wounded, and 33 captured or missing, for a total of 142.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States
