Two regiments of McNair’s brigade, the Thirty-ninth North Carolina Regiment, under Colonel Coleman, and the Twenty-fifth Arkansas Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Hufstedler, were sent forward between the Fiftieth Tennessee Regiment and the brigade to which it belongs. These two regiments came up to the left of the Seventh Texas Regiment, of Gregg’s brigade, about 400 yards in front of the position from which my line had moved, and advanced gallantly to the road from Chattanooga to Lee and Gordon’s Mills, north of Vineyard’s farm, and left still a wide interval on the right of the Fiftieth Tennessee Regiment, which regiment continued to present an extended line and to fight gallantly and persistently the heavy forces in front, while its ranks were being continually thinned.
It will be seen by the report of Colonel Coleman, of the Thirty-ninth North Carolina Regiment, forwarded herewith, that the two regiments from Gregg’s brigade drove the enemy in rapid flight across the Chattanooga road, and passed a small house in a corn-field west of the road and north of Vineyard’s house; and that here, though the enemy in their front were in flight and broken, those regiments fell back for want of support and on account of re-enforcements received by the enemy and a flank fire on the left.