. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. n likemanner. About the time the divisions of Law and Kershaw, having swepteverything before them after breaking through the right, were now advancingat quick step towards the same position on the ridge. It was about 12 oclocknoon when the Brigade approached the hill from the northeast and swunginto line to the right of the Snodgrass house, in rear of the Fourth U. S. Bat-tery, just as the advance line of Laws Division was coming up the slope fromthe southeast. Instantly a desp
. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. n likemanner. About the time the divisions of Law and Kershaw, having swepteverything before them after breaking through the right, were now advancingat quick step towards the same position on the ridge. It was about 12 oclocknoon when the Brigade approached the hill from the northeast and swunginto line to the right of the Snodgrass house, in rear of the Fourth U. S. Bat-tery, just as the advance line of Laws Division was coming up the slope fromthe southeast. Instantly a desperate conflict for the possession of the hill com-menced. The enemy, flushed with success and priding themselves on theirfancied superiority over the other troops composing Braggs Army, foughtwith reckless daring. But they now contended with troops who fought withthe same assurance and who were greatly their superiors in military Colonel Stoughton intended to hold the hill against the hosts of BraggsArmy was an assured fact in the minds of his men and they fought withcoolness and fired with CAPTAIN C. W. NEWBERRY. Eleventh Infantry. Killed Sept. 20. 1863. HISTORY OF MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 117 The conflict continued at close range for ten or fifteen minutes, the FourthU. S. Battery joining in the strife, when the flower of Lees Army received itsfirst repulse on that field, and fled precipitately down the hill, leaving theslope strewn with their dead and wounded. Stoughtons loss was very lightconsidering the storm of bullets the Brigade faced. Among the killed in theRegiment at this time was Captain Charles W Newberry, of Company B,and Sergeant Major Irving Snyder received a wound in his right side fromwhich he died a few days after the battle. Both were brave and genialsoldiers, and their loss was greatly deplored. Colonel Stoughton now reformed his line, the Eleventh taking a positionalong the ridge from the battery, extending to the right; the Nineteent
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