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On September 20, 1863, at 11 a.m., Adams' Brigade of Breckinridge's Division, Hill's Corps, under Brigadier General Daniel W. Adams and Colonel Randall Lee Gibson, included the 32nd Alabama; the 13th and 20th Louisiana; the 16th and 25th Louisiana; the 19th Louisiana; the 14th Louisiana Battalion; and Slocomb's Louisiana Battery. After overcoming sharp resistance from John Beatty's and Stanley's Union brigades, the brigade reached this line with Stovall's brigade somewhat retired on its left in the Kelly field. There Stovall was attacked in front and Adams on the left flank by a sudden charge of Van Derveer's brigade, assisted on its right by an oblique fire of canister from Goodspeed's Ohio battery and on its left by Stanley's brigade. Under this attack both brigades withdrew to a position near their morning line. In the final assault late in the afternoon, this brigade advanced in the center of its division and pursued the Union troops into the woods west of the Chattanooga road.
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