Helm's Brigade

On September 20, 1863, at 10 a.m., Helm's Brigade of Breckinridge's Division, Hill's Corps, included the 41st Alabama, the 2nd Kentucky, the 4th Kentucky, the 6th Kentucky, the 9th Kentucky, and Cobb's Kentucky Battery, with Colonel Joseph H. Lewis in command. In the advance of Breckinridge's division from east of the Kelly field, the 6th Kentucky on the right of the brigade, the 4th Kentucky next in line with it, and six companies of the 41st Alabama cleared the Union log works on the east line of the Kelly field and reached this line. In the advance they struck the 15th Kentucky and 104th Illinois of John Beatty's brigade in front and flank, pressed them back, and at this point captured two guns of Bridge's battery attached to that brigade. This portion of Helm's Brigade, under the command of Colonel J. H. Lewis of the 6th Kentucky, was then withdrawn and reformed with the left of the brigade near the position from which it originally advanced. Its strength in action on September 20 was 1404 officers and men, and its casualties were 63 killed and 408 wounded.

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