On Nov. 22 1864, the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman’s army marched southeast from the vicinity of Gray toward Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea. To protect the right against Wheeler’s cavalry, Brig. Gen. C. C. Walcutt’s brigade of Woods division, 15th Corps, with two guns of Arndt’s Michigan Battery, was sent toward Macon. Near Griswoldville, Walcutt found Murray’s brigade of Kilpatrick’s cavalry division engaged with Wheeler, and together they drove Wheeler through Griswoldville. Walcutt then withdrew and took up a strong position on the Duncan farm, south of the railroad and about 1 1/2 miles east of town, where his men hastily intrenched on a slight elevation behind Little Sandy Creek, with flanks protected by swamps and open fields in front and the guns placed on the road near the center of the line. About 2:30 P.M., Brig. Gen. P. J. Phillips’s 1st Division, Georgia Militia, with four guns, attacked in three lines across the open fields and made seven determined assaults, silencing Arndt’s guns but failing to break the Union line. About 3:30 P.M., Walcutt was wounded and Col. R. F. Catterson of the 97th Indiana Infantry assumed command. At dusk, Phillips was forced to retire, and Catterson made no attempt to pursue him. The Confederates suffered 523 killed and wounded, and the United States forces 92.