The Mississippi Brigade

Brig. Gen. W. S. Featherston’s Mississippi Brigade, in Loring’s division, consisted of the 40th, 31st, 22d, 3d, and 33d regiments, deployed from west to east, with Stigler’s sharpshooters in skirmish line. The brigade held the extreme right of Stewart’s army corps, joining Hardee’s army corps, whose line extended east to Clear Creek. Featherston’s Confederate assault struck the fronts of Coburn’s and Wood’s Union brigades in the ravine north of Collier Road. His right regiments vainly attempted to enter a gap between Wood’s and Kimball’s brigades, where Col. J.L. Drake of the 33d Mississippi was slain. Repelled by counter-assaults, the brigade withdrew south of the road, which Federal forces held against repeated attempts to retake it.

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