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On September 20, 1863, at 6:30 P.M., Colonel John H. Kelly's brigade in Preston's Division of Buckner's Corps included the 65th Georgia under Colonel R.H. Moore, the 5th Kentucky under Colonel Hiram Hawkins, the 58th North Carolina under Colonel John B. Palmer, the 63d Virginia under Major James M. French, and Wolihin's Georgia Battery under Captain Andrew M. Wolihin. While this brigade, except for the 65th Georgia left at Hall's Ford, was assaulting to the front, Trigg's brigade crossed the ridge to Kelly's left onto ground from which Steedman's Division had withdrawn at sunset and gained the rear of the troops still remaining in front of Kelly. A charge by Kelly's brigade at dusk drove the right of three Union regiments that had operated with the left of Steedman's Division but had not received notice to withdraw over the crest, and most of them were captured between the lines of Kelly and Trigg.
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