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On September 20, 1863, Major General Benjamin F. Cheatham’s division of Polk’s Corps, including the brigades of John K. Jackson, Preston Smith, Alfred J. Vaughan Jr., George Maney, Marcus J. Wright, and Otho F. Strahl, was held in reserve behind Stewart and Cleburne until 2 p.m., when it was shifted to the extreme right. Jackson’s Brigade had already been sent at 11 o’clock to fill a gap on Cleburne’s right after Cleburne had been repulsed. The division then joined the general advance of the right wing. Jackson’s Brigade, supported by Maney’s, became sharply engaged along with Polk’s Brigade of Cleburne’s Division and Breckinridge’s Division against the fronts of Johnson and Baird, who withdrew hastily to the woods west of the Kelly field, followed there by the Confederate line.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States
