Trigg’s Brigade

At noon on Sept. 19, 1863, Trigg’s Brigade of Preston’s Division in Buckner’s Corps, commanded by Col. Robert C. Trigg and including the 1st Florida Cavalry dismounted under Col. G. T. Maxwell, the 6th Florida under Col. J. J. Finley, the 7th Florida under Col. Robert Bullock, the 54th Virginia under Lieut. Col. John Wade, and Peeples’ Georgia Battery under Capt. Tyler M. Peeples, moved right from the line at Hunt’s house to the crest of a ridge half a mile north. After heavy skirmishing until about 9 o’clock, the brigade was sent to the right and front to reinforce Hood’s Corps, then heavily engaged immediately east of Viniard’s house. It came partially under fire from Carlin’s brigade and part of Wilder’s dismounted infantry covered by the woods, but its heaviest fighting was against Barnes’ brigade of Van Cleve’s division, which had been left near Lee and Gordon’s mill and moved up to attack Trigg in flank. After severe fighting, these forces were pushed back west of the Lafayette Road south of Viniards. The later arrival of two brigades of Sheridan’s division from Lee and Gordon’s Mills compelled the Confederate line to withdraw to the position it had occupied before the advance.

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