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On the high hill 500 yards south of Collier Road, the left of Scott’s brigade, the 27th, 35th and 49th Alabama and 12th Louisiana of Loring’s division, Confederate States, dislodged Geary’s outpost, the 33d New Jersey regiment, United States, and captured its flag. Pressing forward, the left of Scott’s line moved toward Geary’s batteries at Collier Road, while the right, diverted by gunfire, crossed Tanyard Branch and the road and continued down the slope north, in effect flanking Geary’s two batteries 300 yards westward. This surprise assault by Scott, had it been in greater force, might have driven a wedge in the center of the Federal line; outnumbered, it was driven back south of the road.
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