Archer’s Brigade

On August 29, 1862, at 5:30 p.m., Archer's Brigade of A.P. Hill's Division in Jackson's Left Wing of the Army of Northern Virginia, CSA, under Brig. Gen. James J. Archer, included the 1st Tennessee, 19th Georgia, 7th Tennessee, 5th Alabama Battalion, and 14th Tennessee. As his leading files entered the railroad cut, Archer saw the enemy advancing up it from the left and ordered the 1st Tennessee to fire, which he said had great effect. That opening fire was answered by a furious assault along his whole front, and for twenty minutes or more his brigade resisted the attack until other troops arrived in time to prevent him from being flanked.

Virginia · United States