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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS


Vol. VII.
Richmond, Va., April, 1879.
No. 4.


Battle of Chickamauga—Report of General J. C. Breckinridge.

Headquarters Breckinridge's Division,
D. H. Hill's Corps, October, 1863.

Lieutenant-Colonel Archer Anderson, A. A. General, Hill's Corps:

Colonel—I have the honor to report the operations of my division in the battle of Chickamauga on the 19th and 20th of September last.

It was composed of the Second, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Kentucky and Fourth Alabama regiments, with Cobb's battery, under the command of Briadier-General B. H. Helm; the Thirteenth, Twentieth, Sixteenth, Twenty-fifth and Nineteenth Louisiana, Thirty-second Alabama and Austin's battalion sharp-shooters, with Slocomb's battery (Fifth Washington artillery), under the command of Brigadier-General Daniel Adams; the First, Third and Fourth Florida, Forty-seventh Georgia and Sixtieth North Carolina regiments, with Mebane's battery, under the command of Brigadier-General M. A. Stovall.

My effective strength was of enlisted men three thousand three