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The wooded knob to the west was a fortified outpost, 1.25 miles north of Johnston’s intrenched line from Lost to Brushy Mountains, from June 5 to June 15, 1864. Pine Mountain was held by Bate’s division of Hardee’s A. C., the 5th Co. Washington Artillery of N. Orleans, and Lt. R. T. Beauregard’s S. Carolina Battery. On June 14, while observing Federal lines with Generals Johnston and Hardee, General Leonidas Polk was killed by a shell from a Federal battery whose identity is not certain. The outpost was abandoned the next day and withdrawn to the main line.
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