Smith's Brigade

At noon on September 19, 1863, Smith's Brigade of Cheatham's Division in Polk's Corps, under Brigadier General Preston Smith and Colonel Alfred J. Vaughn, Jr., included the 11th Tennessee under Colonel George W. Gordon, the 12th Tennessee under Colonel William M. Watkins, the 47th Tennessee under Colonel William M. Watkins, the 13th Tennessee under Colonel A.J. Vaughn, Jr., the 154th Tennessee under Colonel A.J. Vaughn, Jr., the 29th Tennessee under Colonel Horace Rice, Dawson's Sharpshooters under Major J.W. Dawson and Major William Green, and Scott's Tennessee Battery under Lieutenant John H. Marsh and Lieutenant A.T. Watson. With Jackson's brigade on its right and Wright's on its left, it formed a few hundred yards to the rear of this position, first met resistance on this line, and then advanced rapidly to the crest just north of it, where it engaged troops from the right of Johnson's and the left of Palmer's Union divisions. After two hours of severe fighting and forcing the Union line back some 600 or 800 yards, the brigade was replaced by Strahl's and retired to the ground where it had first formed.

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