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On September 19, 1863, Calvert's Arkansas Battery, armed with 2 6 Pounders and 2 12 Pounder Howitzers and serving with Polk's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Hill's Corps, moved with its brigade from near the extreme left of the army. About 4 p.m. it crossed the Chickamauga at Thedford's Ford, formed line of battle near Jay's Mill about sunset, and advanced with the brigade, passing over the troops of Liddell's Division. Coming into position at a trot on this ground, on the right of Wood's and left of Polk's Brigades about dark, it opened fire with canister on the enemy at sixty yards. After about an hour's fighting, the enemy retired, and the battery bivouacked here for the night.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States
