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On Sept. 19th, 1863, at 3:30 P.M., Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood's division of Crittenden's Corps, with Colonel George P. Buell's and Colonel Charles G. Harker's brigades, arrived at Viniard's while Brigadier General George D. Wagner's brigade remained at Chattanooga. Harker charged up the LaFayette Road beyond Davis' left and sent the 64th and 125th Ohio into action in the woods east of the road, while taking the 65th Ohio and 3d Kentucky farther north, where they struck the rear of Fulton's Brigade of Bushrod Johnson's Division, forced it back east of the road, and relieved pressure on Van Cleve. Buell's Brigade first formed behind Heg's Brigade of Davis' men and was carried away with them, but later, with Bradley's Brigade of Sheridan's Division on its right east of the road, and after being twice forced back, with assistance from Wilder's Brigade and batteries west of the road, drove the enemy into the woods east of Viniard's at sunset. Harker rejoined the division near this place at dark.
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