Federal Trenches

During the night of October 4, Federal troops anxiously awaited in their defenses for the attack they knew would come. Harvey M. Trimble of the 93rd Illinois Regiment recalled that the command slept under arms, knowing the morning reveille would be sounded with muskets on the picket line and that before another sun set many would fall to a sleep from which no reveille or bugle could call them again to arms and battle, and yet they slept. During the battle, these trenches were manned by troops of the 4th Minnesota Infantry Regiment, who repulsed Confederate troops of the 35th and 39th Mississippi Regiments of Brigadier General Claudius Sears' brigade.

Georgia · United States