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On Sept. 19, 1863, at 5 P.M., Col. T.R. Stanley’s brigade of Negley’s Division, Thomas’ Corps, including the 19th Illinois under Lieut. Col. Alexander W. Raffen, the 11th Michigan under Col. William L. Stoughton, the 18th Ohio under Lieut. Col. Chas. H. Grosvenor, and Battery M, 1st Ohio under Capt. Frederick Schultz, reached widow Glenn’s from Crawfish Springs about 5 o’clock and immediately advanced upon the flank of Stewart’s division, which had broken the Union line at Brotherton’s and advanced as far as the Tan Yard in the Dyer fields. Threatened in this way, the enemy withdrew to the forest east of the Lafayette road. Supported by Sirwell’s brigade of the same division, Stanley’s brigade pushed northward until it reached the road leading to Brotherton’s, then moved eastward in line to the edge of the Brotherton fields, restoring the Union line along its front. It then threw up defenses and bivouacked in position.
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