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On July 21, 1861, at 11:00 a.m., the 4th Alabama Infantry of the 3rd Brigade under Bee, Army of the Shenandoah under Johnson, C.S.A., came under heavy fire soon after emerging from the timber. Colonel Egbert J. Jones's regiment marched steadily up the hill through the shower of balls, then was ordered to halt and lie down in what Chaplain James G. Hudson recalled as a critical and fearful position that the men endured with courage and coolness.
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