Wood's Brigade

At 11 a.m. on September 20, 1863, Wood's Brigade of Cleburne's Division in Hill's Corps, commanded by Brigadier General S. A. M. Wood, advanced with its three left regiments, followed and aided by its battery, from the woods east of this position, supported on its left by Stewart's Division, and made a persistent attack on King's Brigade west of the Lafayette Road. The brigade's left crossed the road near the Poe House, but the combined attack by Wood's Brigade and Stewart's Division was repulsed by Union troops behind rail barricades west of the road, well supported by artillery, and by flank and rear fire from breastworks in the woods northeast of the field. The attacking forces then retired to the lines from which they had advanced and were not again seriously engaged until toward sundown.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States