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On September 20, 1863, at 11 A.M., Colonel Ferdinand VanDerveer’s brigade of Brannan’s Division, Thomas’ Corps, moving from Dyer Field toward the left of Baird’s Division north of Kelly Field, emerged from the woods in deployed lines and was attacked at close quarters on the flank by Stovall’s Brigade of Breckinridge’s Division entering from the north and by Adams’ Brigade of the same division advancing through the woods on the west. Van Derveer marched his brigade into the open ground, changed front to the left on a run, laid both lines down, and with a volley from the first line checked the enemy’s advance. He then sent his second line over the first on a charge, with the first following instantly, and this attack, aided by Goodspeed’s Battery of Willich’s Brigade, after severe fighting repulsed Breckinridge’s brigades. After the Union left was restored and heavy firing was heard at Snodgrass Hill, Van Derveer moved there and joined his division, while the battery had been sent to the Snodgrass House at the beginning of the movement.
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