Trigg's Brigade

On September 20, 1863, at 5:30 p.m., Colonel Robert C. Trigg's Brigade of Preston's Division in Buckner's Corps, consisting of the 1st Florida Cavalry dismounted under Colonel G. T. Maxwell, the 6th Florida under Colonel J. J. Finley, the 7th Florida under Colonel Robert Bullock, the 54th Virginia under Lieutenant Colonel John J. Wade, and Peeples' Georgia Battery under Captain Tyler M. Peeples, arrived at Snodgrass Hill from Brotherton's between five and six o'clock p.m. Trigg sent the 1st Florida to support Gracie and formed the rest of his brigade on the left of Kelly and advanced toward the crest. The portion of Steedman's Division that had occupied the summit in Trigg's front had just withdrawn, and Trigg's line passed beyond the crest and, turning to its right, moved into the rear of three Union regiments that had operated on the left of Whitaker's Brigade of Steedman's Division but had not received notice to withdraw. Trigg, in cooperation with Kelly advancing against the Union front, captured the greater part of these regiments. The brigade's strength in action at the opening of the battle was 1,536 officers and men, and its casualties were 46 killed, 231 wounded, and 5 missing, for a total of 282, a loss of 18.36 percent.

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