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Patrick R. Cleburne's division of Hardee's Corps, with the brigades of Daniel C. Govan, James A. Smith, Henry B. Granbury, Lucius E. Polk, and Mark P. Lowery and an artillery battalion commanded by T. R. Hotchkiss, reached the eastern base of Missionary Ridge from Chickamauga Station on the evening of November 23, 1863, while on its way to report to General Longstreet at Knoxville. At dawn on November 24 it began throwing up earthworks along the crest of the ridge from General Bragg's headquarters to the Shallow Ford Road. At 2 p.m. it was dispatched in haste to Tunnel Hill to confront General Sherman's forces, and because there were then no Confederate forces on Missionary Ridge between Cleburne's right and Tunnel Hill, the head of the division reached that point at 2:30 p.m.
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