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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Third Infantry
our whole line having pushed the enemy back in wheeling movement around and upon his right flank, where were built his strongest fortifications, and where he made his most stubborn resistance that day. We -reached again the extreme right of our infantry lines. A. J. Smith's force had just taken a high hill and a battery from the enemy. Behind this hill our corps formed, and moving over it near its base upon the opposite side where runs the Harrodsburg pike, passed through the resting lines of the 16th corps, relieving them, and pressed on through a wood to the open fields of the valley.
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