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at the Hornet s Nest," and in Cheatham s division was successfully engaged on the field of Perryville, and in the rout of the Federal right wing at Murfreesboro. During the movement to Shelbyville he had temporary command of McCown s division. Promoted major-general in June, 1863, he was given a division of Hardee’s corps, with which he held Hoover s Gap, through a hard fight, and checked the Federal advance. Transferred to Buckner’s corps, he was distinguished at Chickamauga, defeating successively Palmer’s and VanCleve’s divisions on the 19th, and on the 2oth made a brilliant advance at 11 a. m., of which D. H. Hill wrote: "This was the celebrated attack upon Reynolds and Brannan which led directly to the Federal disaster. " At Missionary Ridge he commanded a division of Breckinridge’s corps. During the Atlanta campaign he made a desperate fight at New Hope Church, worsting Hooker s corps and saving Stevenson s division from capture. For this Joe Johnston promised him promotion and on June 23d his commission as lieutenant-general was issued. On the death of Polk he succeeded to the command of one of the three corps of the army of Tennessee, in which capacity he served efficiently in the three great battles about Atlanta, and in the succeeding Tennessee campaign under Hood. At the last he commanded a corps of Johnston’s army at Bentonville. As a commander he was quiet and modest, but he always inspired his soldiers with confidence and daring. At Resaca he had three horses shot under him; at Chickamauga he was slightly wounded; and at Ezra Church, near Atlanta, he received a flesh wound in the forehead. At Chickamauga his division went in 4,040 strong and lost 1,733 in killed and wounded. After the war he returned to Cumberland university and resumed his educational work. From 1874 to 1886 he was chancellor of the University of Mississippi. When it was determined to create a National park on the field of Chickamauga, he was most appropriately appointed a mem-