The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-08-17
GRENADA, MISS, SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1889.

the Nineteenth Alabama was 43 per
cent; that OF the Twenty-second Ala
bama So per cent.
Browns brigade OF Stewards corps lost
1873 per cent, Bate of the same division
4S.7 per cent, and Clayton, the remain
ing brigade, 42.4 per cent; and Bate, In
one afternoon had three horses shot
under him.
In Clayton's brigade the Eighteenth
Alabama lost Sc per cent.
Preston's division, in less than one
hour and thirty minutes, on Sunday
afternoon, lost 33 per cent of those en-
gagged Gracic's brigade OF this division
loss 34.S per cent. in a single hour,
while assaulting the position OF Gen.
Brannan on Horseshoe Ridge, and the
total loss OF the same brigade in the
second days fight was 81 per cent.
OF Grac les brigade the First Alatama
Legion loss 70 per cent; the SixtY-third
Tennessee, 49.7 per cent. :,
This brigade OF Oracle, which suffered
such terrible loss within the space OF an
hour, carried into action zoos officers
and men, and in this time lost 60S killed
and wounded. The Second Alabama
battalion lost 1863 killed and wounded
out of 239. In the assault on the Ridge
in which these losses occurred the colors
of the Second Alabama were pierced in
So places They were afterward, by re-
quest, presented to President Davis, and
the standard-bcarer, Robert ". Hearth,
was promoted for conspicuous courage.
Gregg's brigade OF Bushrod Johnson's
division. while assaulting Snodgrass Hill,
lost nearly 46 per cent; the Twenty
fifth Tennessee, of Johnson'S brigade, in
Stewart's division, lost over 80 per
cent. ;.
Jackson's brigade OF Cheatham's di-
vison lost 34S7 per cent; the Fifth
Georgia, one OF its regiments, lost 54'9
per cent. Several Of the regiments, of
Maney's brigade OF this same division
lost over 50 per cent. This was true OF
the two regiments, Sixth and Ninth
Tennessee, under the command OF that
brilliant officer, Col. George G.. Porter,
and the same character of fighting was
performed by the First and Twenty
seventh Tennessee, under the command
of that equally brilliant officer, Col.
J,,,o d Eia11
Il "''i0 i'' '0''
THE SANE EVERY " HERE
In Breckinridge's division the .aggre'
gate of loss was SO per cent. Owing to
the loss of its commanding officer, the
Adams brigade OF this division was COM
manded in the latter part of the fight by
Senator Randall Gibson Its loss was
81 npr cent, and the loss OF men SO per
cent. In Breckinrldge's division, Hem,
in command OF the brigade, was killed j;
Adams, commanding another, severely
wounded, ana Graves, the chlel OF ar
tillery, was killed. -
The loss in Cleburne.s dlvlsion was 10
per cent. Tue Forty,el5hth Iennessee s &c
in Folks brigade OF this alViSloh, loSV 10 10
out OF lou. Deshlers Drlgaue lost ls
commanding ofnCer ana 70 per cent. ol
its men, and D; n. Hllls corps OF Two Two
divisions, to Whlch these prigaues pe-
longed, lost 5f per cent. OF those ell
gagged.
The desperate character OF the hght,,
ing on Bairds front, the lett dlVlslcnl OF
our army on SUNDAY afternoon u Il, lI1us, III .,
trated by the lact tnat tniee ot''uen tEa soin 40
succession moved up against the same
point OF the work and each IN successor
was broken and scattered FIRST Helm
of Breckinridge's division attacked II II
two lines, and were driven back. lheE
Gists brigade of Walkers division wen! YEN
over these lines OF Helms Whlch haC
been repulsed, and charged tGrwarc
only to be in turn overwhelmed by the
firmness OF the fire from the breastWork5s
Upon Gists withdrawing Ec'ors orlgao'
moved over the broken lines OF Hein
and Gist in succession, ana aSsaul'eo 'n'