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On the afternoon of November 30, 1864, Confederate Gen. John C. Brown’s division of more than 3,700 soldiers, mostly from Tennessee with some from Georgia and South Carolina, attacked Federal forces near the Carter Farm after first confronting an advanced line about a half mile away. When that forward position collapsed, Brown’s troops charged on toward the main Federal line commanded by Gen. Thomas Ruger, their advance marked by the rebel yell as some men plunged into a tangled locust-tree abatis that hindered the attack. Just before 4:30 p.m., Brown’s force, organized in two front-line brigades and two reserve brigades, struck and crushed a substantial part of Ruger’s line, inflicting heavy losses on the 50th and 72 Illinois infantry regiments and driving Federal troops back to a secondary line. Brown’s men then surged across the Carter garden and up the slope out of the locust abatis, continuing the assault but suffering heavy losses; Brown was wounded, and Gen. Otho Strahl was shot nearby while loading rifles for his men, then struck again and killed while being evacuated to the rear.
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