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In Longstreet's Corps, Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson's Division, with Johnson's Brigade under Colonel John S. Fulton, Gregg's Brigade under Colonel Cyrus A. Sugg, and McNair's Brigade under Brigadier General Evander McNair and Colonel David Coleman, formed on this line at 7 a.m. on September 20, 1863, and advanced at 11:10 a.m. As Wood's Union Division was moving left from Johnson's front, Johnson's Division advanced into the opening under heavy fire from adjacent lines, soon broke the Union center, and gained the Dyer fields. Entering these fields, the division bore slightly right, captured fifteen guns on the high ground west and northwest of the Dyer house, and separated the Union divisions of Davis and Sheridan from the rest of the army. With assistance from Hood's and McLaws' divisions, which first followed in Johnson's track and then turned farther right, the Union center was thrown into disorder. At 2 o'clock Johnson's line faced Snodgrass Hill at Vittetoe's, ready to assault.
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