Brown's Brigade

On September 20, 1863, at 11 A.M., Brown's Brigade of Stewart's Division in Buckner's Corps, commanded by Colonel Edmund C. Cook and including the 18th Tennessee, 26th Tennessee, 32d Tennessee, 45th Tennessee, 23d Tennessee Battalion, and T.H. Dawson's Georgia Battery, moved forward with Wood's on its right from a position beyond the first crest east of this position. Upon reaching the open ground, it came under terrific fire from Brannan's line behind rail and stone barricades west of the Poe place and from enfilading infantry and artillery fire from Reynolds' Division near the north end of the field. The brigade's left crossed the road, but after severe fighting it was repulsed with heavy loss. It then withdrew to its morning line and remained unengaged until the general advance shortly before sundown. Its strength in action was 1440 officers and men, and its casualties were 50 killed, 426 wounded, and 4 missing, for a total of 480, a loss of 33.3 percent.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States