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The reports of other officers are to the same effect; and Cleburne's views of the opportuneness of his arrival on the right, and the character of the work next day, are quoted by General Hardee above.

Lieutenant-General Wheeler, holding the extreme right with cavalry, under date of 29th February, 1880, thus refers to the situation on the 20th, after McPherson had pressed him back to a point near Atlanta:

And he furnished me the following copies of dispatches received by him that day, which illustrate the state of affairs which required the shiftings of Cheatham's corps and the call for Cleburne's division: