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On July 28, 1864, the northeast corner of Laurel and Archer was the site of a salient angle in the line of Logan’s 15th Corps troops during the Battle of Ezra Church. Northwest from the angle, Harrow’s and M. L. Smith’s divisions extended to Anderson Avenue; Wood’s division was deployed northeast along the old Lick Skillet Road to Ezra Church and beyond, where it joined the right of the 17th Corps. Clayton’s division of D. Lee’s A. C. attacked the angle with Gibson’s, Baker’s, and Holtzclaw’s brigades. This was the right of the Confederate line. After the war, Battle Hill School stood at the southeast corner of Laurel Avenue and Archer Street.
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