Stovall's Brigade

On September 20, 1863, at 11 a.m., Stovall's Brigade of Breckinridge's Division in Hill's Corps, under Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, included the 1st and 3rd Florida under Colonel William S. Dilworth, 4th Florida under Colonel W.L.L. Bowen, the 47th Georgia under Captain William S. Phillips and Captain Joseph S. Cone, the 60th North Carolina under Lieutenant Colonel James M. Ray and Captain James Thomas Weaver, and Mebane's Tennessee Battery under Captain John W. Mebane. After sharp resistance, mainly from Dodge's Brigade on the left of Baird's Division, the brigade entered Kelly Field full in the Union rear. Adams' Brigade was in the woods on the right across the Lafayette road with its right advanced. There both brigades were attacked, Stovall from the front and Adams from the left by Van Derveer's and Stanley's brigades, and were compelled to withdraw to the vicinity of the McDonald's House. In the final assault on the enemy's lines late in the afternoon, this brigade advanced on the right of the division, passed over the breastworks, and pursued to the Chattanooga Road.

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