Scribner's Brigade

On September 20, 1863, Scribner's Brigade of Baird's Division, Thomas' Corps, commanded by Colonel Benjamin F. Scribner and including the 38th Indiana, 2nd Ohio, 33rd Ohio, 94th Ohio, and 10th Wisconsin, formed in two lines on this ground in the morning and protected its front with logs. Starkweather's brigade was on its right and King's Regulars on its left. The brigade had no battery, but the clear space in its front was enfiladed by two guns of the Fourth Indiana battery of Starkweather's brigade. Its front and left were heavily assaulted during the forenoon, and it held its position until an order to withdraw sometime before sunset. While under attack it crossed the Kelly field under heavy fire, losing many men by capture, then partially reformed and retired with the army to Rossville. Its strength in action on the first day was 1879 officers and men, and its casualties on September 19 and 20 were 732, a loss of 39 percent.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States