Reynolds' Division

On September 20th, 1863, until 5:30 P.M., Major General Joseph J. Reynolds's division of Thomas' Corps, with the 1st Brigade under Colonel John T. Wilder detached as mounted infantry, the 2d Brigade under Colonel Edward A. King and Colonel Milton S. Robinson, and the 3d Brigade under Brigadier General John B. Turchin, formed early in the morning on the right of Palmer's Division, extending the Union line to and beyond the LaFayette Road south of Kelly's. Turchin's Brigade held the left of the division and Edward King's, posted west of the road, held the right, with both brigades in two lines behind slight breastworks of rails, logs, and stones hastily constructed. Soon after 10 o'clock, Stewart's division of three brigades attacked Brannan's and Reynolds's fronts with great vigor, but after severe close-range fighting was repulsed with great loss and reformed on the ground from which it had first advanced. At 11 A.M., Longstreet's columns of three divisions pierced the Union line at the Brotherton House through a gap left by the withdrawal of Wood's Division, and after stubborn fighting Brannan was forced away from Reynolds's right and retired to Snodgrass Hill. Reynolds then refused King's Brigade on his right, and his line was not again attacked by infantry. After 5:30 P.M., under orders from General Thomas, the division withdrew without molestation by columns of brigades moving northward on each side of the LaFayette Road. Soon after passing the Kelly House, Turchin's Brigade filed left, moved a brigade front, faced north, and charged through the woods upon scattered enemy forces to the fields beyond, then along the front of Walthall's Brigade, capturing most of its skirmishers, and, after passing the front of McCook's Brigade, formed in the rear and to the left of McCook as a covering force for the army's withdrawal. King's Brigade followed Turchin in a charge to the road north of the woods, then turned left and took position on the high ground near Turchin to help cover the withdrawal. The division then followed the rear of the column to Rossville by way of McFarland's Gap. Its losses for two days were 93 killed, 685 wounded, and 176 missing, for a total of 954.

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