Baker's Brigade

On July 22, 1864, Baker's Alabama brigade, commanded by Col. J.H. Higley and part of Clayton's division in Cheatham's Army Corps, C.S.A., was diverted northeast during Clayton's attack on the 15th Army Corps to the east, forming the extreme left of a line that extended south to Glenwood Avenue. Higley's troops faced the right sector of the 15th Army Corps, held by two brigades of Woods' division on the south slope of Copenhill. A gap of 250 yards in the swampy area of the Clear Creek valley separated Woods from the right of Morgan Smith's division, where the DeGress battery was posted. Woods' flank attack on Manigault's line at the Troup Hurt house not only retrieved the battery but also forced Baker's brigade to withdraw.

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