Military
On September 19th, 1863, at 4 P.M., Brigadier General Horatio P. Van Cleve's Division of Crittenden's Corps, with its First Brigade under Brigadier General Samuel Beatty and Second Brigade under Colonel George F. Dick falling back before Stewart's attack from east of the LaFayette Road, while the Third Brigade under Colonel Sidney M. Barnes had been left near Lee and Gordon's Mill, rallied on a line where one section of the 26th Pennsylvania Battery under Lieutenant S. M. McDowell and four guns of the 7th Indiana Battery under Captain George R. Swallow took position about 4 o'clock. The division remained there fighting for half an hour until the artillery exhausted its ammunition. Then, flanked on the right by troops from Bushrod Johnson's Division and under a fierce frontal attack from Clayton, the line fell back to the high ground west of the Crawfish Springs Road, where it remained for the night.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States
