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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
was assigned to the command of Col. J. B. Palmer's Second brigade of Breckinridge's division, on the afternoon of the 2d of January; it was composed of the Eighteenth Tennessee, Col. J. B. Palmer; the Twenty-sixth, Col. John M. Lillard; the Forty-fien he placed his command upon the left of the Confederate army and picketed for its protection. On Friday afternoon, January 2d, Major-General Breckinridge was ordered by the commanding general, in person, to take the crest of the hill in his fron. It had 1 officer and 8 men killed, 71 wounded, and 17 captured, during the engagements of the 31st of December and.2d of January, and was distinguished in the subsequent battles of the war. Col. Joseph B. Palmer, Sixteenth, afterward brigadierng a shot, except on the skirmish line and to defend himself from the assault of Breckinridge on the afternoon of the 2d of January. Bragg retired at 2 o'clock a. m. on the morning of the 4th, and two hours later the cavalry under General Wheeler