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Wood met with a strong skirmishing resistance, but thelines went forward steadily, keeping pace with the troops onthe right, till Smith’s attack upon the south end of thestone wall along the Hillsboro road, which was held byWalthall. Kimball’s division was opposite the angle inHood’s line where Walthall joined upon Loring, havingSears’s brigade of French ’s division between them. Kimballpushed straight at the angle, and the right of the stone wallhaving already been carried, Walthall’s brigades, underJohnston (formerly Quarles’s) and Shelley, successively gaveway. Elliott’s division of Wood’s corps lapped upon Gar-rard’s of the Sixteenth, and the whole went forward withenthusiasm, capturing several guns and many prisoners.

Hood’s left was now hopelessly broken, and he made hasteto draw back his shattered divisions upon a new line. Scho-field’s advance had separated Coleman’s brigade from Walt-hall, but it occupied a commanding hill (afterward knownas Shy’s Hill), 1 and held on with tenacity till Walthall,helped by the gathering darkness, could form along its rightacross the Granny White road. At the first news of the lossof the redoubts, Hood ordered Cheatham’s corps (exceptSmith’s, formerly Cleburne’s division) from the right to theleft, and his divisions, hurrying by the Franklin pike towardOverton’s Hill, passed great numbers of stragglers streamingto the rear. Bate was ordered to relieve part of Walthall’sdivision, so as to make a stronger line between Shy’s Hilland the Granny White road, and Walthall closed to the rightupon Loring. South of Shy’s Hill, Lowry’s (formerlyBrown’s) division extended the Confederate left in front ofSchofield, and the whole worked diligently to intrenchthemselves. Lee’s corps was drawn back till his right en-

1 This name is piven the hill by General Bate, whose troops held it, in hono*of Colonel Shy who fell there. It seems to have had no special name before.