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On September 19, 1863, at 6:30 P.M., in its second position, Polk's Brigade of Cleburne's Division, Hill's Corps, under Brigadier General Lucius E. Polk, advanced from Jay's Mill on the right of Cleburne's Division and, after passing Liddell's Division by some 200 yards, its left encountered Baldwin's Brigade of Johnson's Division strongly posted on a hillside behind temporary breastworks. The brigade's right then wheeled left and struck the left flank and rear of Scribner's and Starkweather's Brigades of Baird's Division, which were then forming on the left and rear of Johnson's Division. A severe night fight followed in front of this position, marked by the confusion inseparable from a night attack, with each side directing its fire by the flashes from the rifles of the other. At the end of an hour's fighting, the Union line withdrew to the vicinity of the Kelly field.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States
