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On Sept. 19, 1863, at 5:30 P.M., Col. William Sirwell’s brigade of Negley’s Division, Thomas’ Corps, including the 37th Indiana under Lieut. Col. William D. Ward, the 21st Ohio under Lieut. Col. Dwella M. Stoughton, the 74th Ohio under Capt. Joseph Fisher, the 78th Pennsylvania under Lieut. Col. Archibald Blakeley, and Battery G, 1st Ohio under Capt. Alexander Marshall, followed Stanley’s brigade from Crawfish Springs and reached the vicinity of widow Glenn’s about 5 o’clock. It moved at once toward the Tan Yard in the Dyer field, where the enemy had advanced after piercing the Union line at Brotherton’s, but those forces withdrew to the forest east of the Lafayette road upon the appearance of Negley’s forces. Sirwell’s brigade, with Stanley’s brigade on its left, then advanced as far as the west edge of the Brotherton fields, restoring the Union line, and there the brigade built defenses and bivouacked in position.
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