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III. Buckner, crossing at Telford's ford, will join in the movement to the left and press the enemy up the stream from Polk's front at Lee and Gordon's Mills. IV. Polk will press his forces to the front of Lee and Gordon's Mills. * * * By command of General Bragg. G. W. BRENT, A. A. G. Says an officer writing to Colonel Minty, after the war ended, and who had opportunity of knowing: " It will, I think, be seen that you held on that day (Sept. 18th), the key of the position (the left of the army), and so successfully that the rebel plan was frustrated. It cost General Thomas thousands of men to maintain it, persistently fought for on the two subsequent days.
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