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On July 22, 1864, these troops, together with Walker’s and Bate’s divisions of Hardee’s Army Corps, Confederate States, made a 15-mile night march from Atlanta to attack the rear of McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee, United States, posted on Flat Shoals Road in East Atlanta. Moving northwest up Flat Shoals Road, Cleburne’s and Maney’s divisions struck not the rear but the left flank of the Federal 17th Army Corps where its line bent eastward. Cleburne’s four brigades were deployed on and eastward of the road, and Maney’s four brigades west of it. The immediate area was heavily wooded. Their attack was made somewhat later than Walker’s and Bate’s, 1 mile east in the valley of Sugar Creek near Terry’s Mill Pond.
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