Brown’s & Clayton’s Divs.

At 3:30 P.M. on July 22, 1864, General Hood of the Confederacy launched an attack from the east line of the city fortifications against the 15th Army Corps astride the Georgia Railroad at DeGress Avenue, using a mass assault by two divisions of Cheatham’s Army Corps, Brown’s and Clayton’s. Brown’s brigades were Manigault’s, Sharp’s, Coltart’s, and Benton’s, and Clayton’s brigades were Stovall’s, Baker’s, Gibson’s, and Holtzclaw’s. The impact of these eight small brigades dislodged four Federal brigades from their entrenched line at and on each side of the railroad, where the spearhead of the attack was aimed. This was the critical moment of the battle and is pictured in the Cyclorama at Grant Park.

Atlanta, Georgia · United States