Wood’s Brigade.

Wood’s brigade included the 16th Alabama under Maj. John H. McGaughy, 33d Alabama under Col. Samuel Adams, 45th Alabama under Col. E. B. Breedlove, 18th Alabama Battalion under Maj. John H. Gibson, 32D and 45th Mississippi under Col. M. P. Lowrey, 15th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters under Maj. A.T. Hawkins, and Semple’s Alabama Battery under Lieut. R. W. Goldthwaite. Advancing for a night attack, the brigade passed over troops of Generals Cheatham and Walker’s commands to the rear of this position and came into action on this ground. Opposing them was Baldwin’s Brigade of Johnson’s Division, posted on the opposite edge of the field behind breastworks of rails and logs, from which the Union force was driven. The fighting was severe, and Wood’s troops reached the Union lines, where hand to hand combat continued for some time in the darkness. Col. Baldwin, commanding the Union brigade, was killed, and after an hour the Union forces withdrew.

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