McNair's Brigade

McNair's Brigade of Johnson's Division in Longstreet's Corps, led by Brigadier General Evander McNair and Colonel David Coleman, included the 1st Arkansas Rifles, dismounted, under Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Reynolds; the 2d Arkansas Rifles, dismounted, under Colonel J. A. Williamson; the 25th Arkansas under Lieutenant Colonel Eli Hufstedler; the consolidated 4th and 31st Arkansas and 4th Arkansas Battalion under Major J. A. Ross; the 39th North Carolina under Colonel David Coleman; and Culpeper's South Carolina Battery under Captain J. F. Culpeper. On September 20, 1863, at 2 p.m., after reaching the Dyer field in its advance from Brotherton's, the brigade charged the batteries diagonally on the right and, with Gregg's, helped capture 15 pieces of Union artillery assembled on the high ground along the western edge of the field. Then, being in advance of the line, it fell back to the woods, formed on the left of Robertson's Brigade of Hood's Division, and at 2:30 p.m. advanced again.

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