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The decisive event of the Battle of Chickamauga occurred here on September 20, the second day of the battle, when at 11:10 a.m., just after the last of General Wood’s Union division had pulled out of line and before other Federal units moved north to fill the gap, the Confederate army struck. Eight brigades, about 11,000 men, of Longstreet's Confederate left wing swept across the La Fayette Road and charged a thin line of Federal skirmishers at the edge of the woods. The attack surprised the Federal divisions of Wood, Davis, and Sheridan, which were in motion and unprepared to fight. The assault drove nearly one-third of the Union army from the field, including its commander General Rosecrans. Remnants of shattered Federal units tried without success to check the Confederate advance, leaving the Confederates with an opportunity to surround and destroy the Union army.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States
