Twentieth Army Corps

On September 19th, 1863, Major General Alexander McD. McCook's Twentieth Army Corps marched at daylight from Pond Spring, with Richard W. Johnson's Division leading, followed by Jefferson C. Davis' and Phillip H. Sheridan's Divisions, and halted at Crawfish Springs at 10:15 a.m. Johnson's Division then moved via Widow Glenn's to General Thomas' support, arrived on the right of Baird's Division about noon, secured and held an advanced position toward Alexander's house through the afternoon, and, supported by two brigades of Baird's Division, sustained a fierce night attack from Cleburne's Division before this part of the Union line fell back out of fire and bivouacked in the woods on the eastern edge of the Kelly field. Davis' Division, after following Johnson's to the vicinity of Widow Glenn's, moved eastward to locate the enemy's left flank east of the LaFayette road and at 2 p.m. became heavily engaged east of Viniard's house, where the fighting continued fiercely until dark. After 2 p.m. Sheridan was ordered to replace Wood's Division at Lee and Gordon's Mill, but on reaching that point was almost immediately ordered to leave one brigade at the mill and take the other two brigades to assist Davis' and Wood's Divisions and Wilder's Brigade of Mounted Infantry, then hotly engaged about Viniard's. After forcing the Union lines west of the LaFayette road, the enemy was finally driven back into the woods east of the road at sunset.

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