Featherston’s Brigade

Gen. W.S. Featherston’s Mississippi brigade of Loring’s div., Stewart’s A.C., [CS], together with Scott’s brigade on its left, advanced from trenches at and near Loring’s Hill, 0.9 miles southwest. Traversing a broken area of tangled forest, the brigade crossed Tanyard Branch under fire from Geary’s batteries west of it and struck Collier Road in this sector. Dislodging Coburn’s skirmishers, the 22d Wis. posted behind rail barricades at the south side of the road, the brigade moved down the slope north toward Coburn’s and Wood’s positions. Pressed back to the abandoned barricades, front and flank attacks forced its withdrawal.

Atlanta, Georgia · United States