Hardee’s Attack

On July 20, 1864, at 3:30 P.M., three divisions of Hardee’s A.C.—Bate’s, Walker’s, and Maney’s—moved to attack Newton’s 4th A.C. division of the U.S. army, posted on the ridge 200 yards north of Collier Road. Bate, on the right of the corps, was just west of Clear Creek; Walker held the center astride Peachtree Road; and Maney, formerly Cheatham, was on Walker’s left. Peachtree was a winding country road bordered by heavily wooded tracts, largely owned by the Collier family in the battlefield area. The house of Andrew J. Collier, of Collier’s Mill, stood at the southwest corner of Peachtree and Collier roads. While leading his brigade, Gen. C. H. Stevens of Walker’s division was killed near the Collier House.

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