Laiboldt's Brigade

At 11 a.m. on September 20, 1863, Colonel Bernard Laiboldt's Brigade of Sheridan's Division in McCook's Corps held the right of Sheridan's Division just south of Widow Glenn's. After Longstreet's troops broke through the Union center at the Brotherton house, Sheridan's Division moved rapidly to the left to support Davis' Division in an assault to restore the line. Laiboldt's Brigade, accompanied by Battery C, 1st Illinois, commanded by Captain M.H. Prescott of Walworth's Brigade, took position on the slope, with the battery to the left and rear of the infantry, which was formed on the slope in column of regiments. As Davis' Division was being forced to the rear in confusion by an attack on its front and left, Laiboldt's Brigade charged down the slope into the edge of the woods in its front, but was then forced back and retreated hastily to the hills west of this position, continuing to McFarland's Gap. Prescott's Battery fired only 8 or 10 rounds from this position because retreating men in its front prevented more fire, and in retreating it lost three guns when the horses were shot down. The brigade's casualties were 38 killed, 243 wounded, and 108 captured or missing.

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