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On September 19, 1863, at 6 p.m., Brigadier General Lucius E. Polk's Brigade of Cleburne's Division, Hill's Corps, consisting of the 1st Arkansas under Colonel John W. Colquitt, the 3rd and 5th Confederate under Colonel J. A. Smith, the 2nd Tennessee under Colonel William D. Robison, the 35th Tennessee under Colonel Benjamin J. Hill, the 48th Tennessee under Colonel George H. Nixon, and Calvert's Arkansas Battery under Lieutenant Thomas J. Key, reached this point shortly before 6 p.m. and formed with its right in front of Jay's Mill and its lines extending almost due south, west of the road to Alexander's Bridge. It held the right of Cleburne's Division as formed for attack, with Wood's Brigade next on its left and Deshler's on the extreme left. Soon after 6 o'clock the division moved forward, and after passing over General Walker's troops the brigade's left encountered Baldwin's Brigade of Johnson's Division strongly posted on the side of a hill behind temporary breastworks.
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