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The 53rd Ohio Infantry, part of Cockerill's Brigade, Ewing's Division, Fifteenth Corps, under Colonel Wells S. Jones, crossed the Tennessee River with its brigade on the morning of November 24, 1863, then advanced with General Sherman's column that afternoon and occupied the ridge beyond the north end of Missionary Ridge without opposition. On November 25, the regiment supported a battery engaged with the enemy's artillery on Tunnel Hill. On November 26, the regiment joined the pursuit as far as Graysville and suffered no loss.
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