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On July 20, 1864, Wheeler’s thin gray line of dismounted Confederate cavalry formed the right flank of Atlanta’s defenders. Forced west from Clay Street in the afternoon by Blair’s 17th Army Corps of the United States, Wheeler’s line ran south from the Georgia Railroad to this hill. Before dawn on July 21, Wheeler was replaced by Cleburne’s division of Hardee’s Army Corps, shifted from the Peachtree Creek battlefield to meet the Federal advance from Decatur. When Blair’s 17th Army Corps resumed the offensive, it made its main attack upon the hill. Leggett’s division of the 17th forced Cleburne’s withdrawal, gaining a point on Atlanta’s outer defenses, the eminence known as Leggett’s Hill.
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