. The mountain campaigns in Georgia : or, War scenes on the W. & A . -iS J/OrXTA/X CAMPAIGXS IX GEORGIA. the other defensively by catching in flank the attacking force of the other. Our troops at firstendeavored to hold some ground outside the redoubts, but were soon driven inside, when the enemymade rejjeated assaults, but were always driven back. About eleven A. M., Colonel Redfield, ofthe Thirty-ninth Iowa, was killed, and Colonel Rowett was wounded, but never ceased to fight andencourage his men. Colonel Tourtellotte was shot through the hips, butcontinued to command. General Corse was at
. The mountain campaigns in Georgia : or, War scenes on the W. & A . -iS J/OrXTA/X CAMPAIGXS IX GEORGIA. the other defensively by catching in flank the attacking force of the other. Our troops at firstendeavored to hold some ground outside the redoubts, but were soon driven inside, when the enemymade rejjeated assaults, but were always driven back. About eleven A. M., Colonel Redfield, ofthe Thirty-ninth Iowa, was killed, and Colonel Rowett was wounded, but never ceased to fight andencourage his men. Colonel Tourtellotte was shot through the hips, butcontinued to command. General Corse was at one P. M., shot across theface, the ball cutting his ear, which stunned him, but he continued toencourage his men and to give orders. The enemy (about half past oneP. M.) made a last and desperate effort to carry one of the redoubts, butwas badly cut to pieces by the artillerj- and infantry fire from the other,when he began to draw off, leaving his dead and wounded on theground.—(Memoirs, Vol. II., page 149) General Frenchs assaulting force in this battle was ha
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