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Advance Against Confederate Positions
- When
- June 9, 1864
- Where
- Noonday Creek
- Part of
- Battle of Noonday Creek
Union forces advanced against Confederate positions on June 9 after Garrard failed to interpose between Confederate cavalry and infantry at Noonday Creek.
Brigadier General Kenner Garrard was ordered by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman to interpose between Major General Joseph Wheeler's Confederate cavalry and detached infantry at Noonday Creek. When Garrard failed to do so after a week, two brigades of infantry and three brigades of cavalry with artillery support were advanced against the Confederate positions on June 9.
Sources
- Battle of Noonday Creek Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-21
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