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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 31: battle of Chickamauga. (search)
Tactical features the battle opened by direct attack on the Federals in the early morning of September 20 repeated and determined front assaults brigadiers Helm killed and Adams wounded the Union commands lay behind defences Hood's brigades surged through the forest against the covered infantry and artillery Hood woundek. Breckenridge's and Cleburne's divisions, Breckenridge on the right, overreached the enemy's left by two brigades, Stovall's and Adams's, but the other brigade, Helm's, was marched through the wood into front assault of the enemy behind his field-works. This brigade made desperate repeated and gallant battle until the commander, Benjamin H. Helm, one of the most promising brigadiers, was killed, when its aggressive work was suspended. The other brigades crossed the Chattanooga road, changed front, and bore down against the enemy's left. This gave them favorable ground and position. They made resolute attack against Baird's left, threatening his