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On September 19, 1863, at 3:30 p.m., McNair's Brigade of Johnson's Division in Longstreet's Corps, commanded by Brigadier General Evander McNair and including the 1st Arkansas Rifles (Dismounted), 2d Arkansas Rifles (Dismounted), 25th Arkansas, 4th and 31st Arkansas and 4th Arkansas Battalion, Consolidated, 39th North Carolina, and Culpeper's Battery, reached this ground. The 39th North Carolina and 25th Arkansas advanced to the front line in a charge, passed over the left of Gregg's Brigade, drove back the left of Heg's Brigade, and pushed on to a point about 200 yards west of the LaFayette Road. From there, those regiments were forced back by enfilading fire from part of Wilder's infantry and a section of his battery on the west side of the Viniard field. The rest of the brigade operated farther to the right with Johnson's Brigade. After Harker's and Buell's Union brigades arrived from Lee and Gordon's Mill, the brigade retired about sunset into the forest east of Viniard's.
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