Longstreet's Command

On September 17, 1862, Law's Brigade of Hood's Division in Longstreet's Confederate command, under Colonel E.M. Law of the 4th Alabama, consisted of the 4th Alabama Infantry, 2nd Mississippi Infantry, 6th North Carolina Infantry, and 11th Mississippi Infantry. At 7 a.m. it advanced from the woods at the Dunkard Church and relieved Trimble's Brigade across the Smoketown Road south of this point. Gradually gaining ground to the left, with its center on open ground and its right in the East Woods, it helped repulse the advance of Rickett's Division of the First Corps. Supported on the right by the 21st Georgia of Trimble's Brigade and the 5th Texas of Wofford's Brigade, it advanced to the northeast corner of Miller's cornfield and the adjacent woods, from which the advance of the Twelfth Corps dislodged it. It then withdrew to the fields south of the Dunkard Church and was not engaged again.

Keedysville, Maryland · United States