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I proceeded immediately to reform it in the woods, about six hundred yards east of the road from Chattanooga to Lee & Gordon's mill, when, by order of Major-General Hood, temporary breastworks of timber were put up along the line, behind which my command rested during the night, with skirmishers thrown out to the road. During this brief engagement, the loss of the division was quite heavy. The Third Tennessee regiment reports twelve men killed, and forty- five wounded before it was ordered to advance. The Seventh Texas reg- iment had several killed and wounded at the same time. Lieutenant- Colonel Thomas W. Beaumont, well and honorably known in civil as well as military life. Captain Williams and two other company offi- cers of the Fiftieth Tennessee regiment were killed, seven officers wounded and one missing, while it lost heavily in men. The Forty- fourth Tennessee regiment had Lieutenant- Colonel John L. McEwing, Jr., commanding, a gallant and able officer, who has rendered faithful and efficient service in our army, and five company officers wounded, one (Captain Samuel Jackson) mortally. It lost about fifty men wounded and six killed, one of whom (Sergeant T. A. Johnson) was particularly distinguished for gallantry. The command of this regi- ment now devolved upon Major G. M. Crawford. The Seventeenth Tennessee regiment had one officer killed and two officers and twenty men wounded. Colonel N. B. Granbury, of the Seventh Texas, Major S. H. Colmes, ot the First Tennessee battalion, and Major Lowe, of the Twenty-third Tennessee regiment were severely wounded. The Twenty-third Tennessee lost, in all, one officer and five men killed, five officers wounded, and fifty-eight men wounded and captured. The losses of the other regiments are not reported in this connection. Captain Jackson, of the Forty-fourth Tennessee regiment, has since died of his wounds. Known to me long and familiarly in youth and manhood as Captain Samuel Jackson has been, I feel unable to do justice to his many virtues, his pure and ad- mirable character, or his merits as an officer and soldier.

On Sunday, September 2Oth, 1863, my line was formed by seven o'clock A. M., with McNair's brigade on the right, Johnson's bri- gade in the centre, and two regiments the Fifteenth Tennessee regiment and the First Tennessee battalion, consolidated under Major C. W. Robertson, and the Seventh Texas, under Major Van Zant on the left. The rest of Gregg's brigade, commanded by Colonel Suggs, formed a second line. Culpepper's battery was placed in position on the right of McNair's brigade, Everett's on the right of Johnson's brigade, and Bledsoe's on the right of the two