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In the afternoon of June 27, 1862, Sykes’s division was posted on this hill facing north and holding the eastern end of the Union line. Jackson attacked here while to the west A. P. Hill and Longstreet renewed their assaults. When the Union line was broken on the left, Sykes’s regulars fell back to the river still fighting.
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