Walthall's Brigade

On September 20, 1863, at 5:30 P.M., Walthall's Brigade of Liddell's Division, Walker's Corps, under Brigadier General Edward Cary Walthall, held its 3d position here with the 24th, 27th, 29th, 30th, and 34th Mississippi regiments and Fowler's Alabama Battery. The brigade advanced about 5 o'clock from a glade 700 yards east with Govan's Brigade on its left and occupied this position without opposition. It was immediately subjected to heavy artillery fire from the left and from a battery of Dan McCook's Brigade about 800 yards to the right front. Soon afterward, Turchin's Brigade of Reynold's Division, supported by Robinson's Brigade of the same division, withdrew from the south end of Kelly field and swept out of the woods west of the LaFayette road along the fronts of Govan's and Walthall's brigades, capturing part of their skirmish line and forcing both brigades to retire in some confusion to the forest east of the LaFayette road. Walthall's Brigade bivouacked a short distance east of McDonald's. It took 1827 officers and men into action and suffered 61 killed, 531 wounded, and 196 captured or missing, a total loss of 788, or 43.13 percent.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States