Benton’s & Coltart’s Brigades

On July 22, 1864, when Brown’s, formerly Hindman’s, division of Cheatham’s army corps attacked the Federal line east of here, Benton’s Mississippi and Coltart’s Alabama brigades struck Harrow’s division of the 15th army corps, dislodging Williams’ and Oliver’s brigades. At the same time, Manigault seized Martin’s and Lightburn’s line astride the Georgia Railroad to the north, and this combined action displaced four Federal brigades on a half-mile front before they later recovered it through reinforced counter-assaults. Colonel Samuel Benton, wounded in the battle, was carried to the rear and later taken to a hospital at Griffin, Georgia, where he died.

Atlanta, Georgia · United States