Walthall's Brigade

On September 18, 1863, at 3:30 P.M., Walthall's Brigade of Liddell's Division in Walker's Corps, commanded by Brigadier General Edward Cary Walthall and including the 24th, 27th, 29th, 30th, and 34th Mississippi Regiments and Fowler's Alabama Battery, led Walker's Corps toward a crossing of the Chickamauga and reached Alexander's Bridge about two o'clock that afternoon under orders to attack the enemy and take the bridge. A portion of Wilder's Brigade of Mounted Infantry, armed with repeating rifles, defended the bridge. Walthall's attack, made chiefly by the 29th, 30th, and 34th Mississippi Regiments and Fowler's Battery, while the 24th and 27th met little opposition, was vigorously resisted from the opposite bank by the 98th Illinois, the 17th Indiana, and a detachment of the 72d Indiana, and by four guns of the 18th Indiana Battery posted at Alexander's house. Unable to force a passage of the bridge and after losing 105 men killed and wounded, Walthall moved about a mile down the Chickamauga to Byram's Ford, crossed there, then proceeded with Walker's Corps a mile toward Lee and Gordon's Mill and went into bivouac for the night.

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