At 5:15 p.m. on August 30, 1862, Kemper's Brigade of Kemper's Division in Longstreet's Right Wing of the Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A., under Col. Montgomery D. Corse and including the 1st, 7th, 11th, 17th, and 24th Virginia regiments, neared the Chinn House and was met by a long enemy line rising from behind an old fence and delivering a withering volley. The shock ran through the line, but the officers pushed ahead cheering the men, and in a decisive fight of about 10 minutes the brigade's left struck the enemy's right, doubled it up, and the blue line quivered and went to pieces.
