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Benton's and Coltart's brigades break Harrow's line

Brown's Mississippi and Alabama brigades struck Harrow's XV Corps division south of the railroad and drove out Williams's and Oliver's brigades.

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This attack went in at the same time as Manigault's break at the railroad cut to the north. Together they displaced four Federal brigades on a half-mile front before reinforced counterattacks restored the line. Col. Samuel Benton was wounded here and died later in a hospital at Griffin.