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On July 20, 1864, Gen. J. W. Geary’s 2d Division, 20th A.C. [US], occupied this ridge about 300 yards in advance of Williams’ 1st Division on its right and Ward’s 3d on its left, all facing southward. Geary’s three brigades—Candy’s, Jones’, and Ireland’s—were massed on the ridge together with Aleshire’s artillery. These troops were from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and most had served under Geary at Gettysburg. Overlooking the Tanyard Branch valley, this commanding ridge was the critical point of the Federal position and the objective of Confederate assaults by Walthall’s and Loring’s divisions of Stewart’s A.C. [CS] against the Federal center.
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