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On September 20, 1863, Buell's Brigade of Wood's Division in Crittenden's Corps, commanded by Colonel George P. Buell and including the 100th Illinois under Colonel Frederick A. Bartleson, the 58th Indiana under Lieutenant Colonel James T. Embree, the 13th Michigan under Major Willard G. Eaton, the 26th Ohio under Lieutenant Colonel William H. Young, and the 8th Indiana Battery under Captain George Estep, moved with the division about 3 o'clock a.m. to the slope west of this position, leaving its skirmishers to follow at daylight, and remained there in bivouac until 9 o'clock, when the division advanced to relieve Negley's on the line and the brigade formed in the woods at the western edge of the Brotherton field with Harker's Brigade on its left.
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