Military
On May 2, 1863, as the tail end of Stonewall Jackson's flanking column neared the Wellford place, Union infantry attacked Jackson's rearguard, the 23rd Georgia, a half-mile to the north at Catharine Furnace. The fighting became a running battle to the Wellford farm, where Confederate artillery unlimbered in the yard of the Wellford house to help repel a Union assault. Outnumbered, the Georgians fell back to the protection of a railroad embankment still visible in the woods ahead, but Union sharpshooters outflanked their position and captured most of the regiment. The Federals pushed no farther, however, and Jackson's march continued. By 5 p.m. his column lay poised opposite the Union army's unprotected right flank, about three miles northwest, with Jackson on the verge of his greatest success.
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