Bruce,

Thank you for the additional information. According to Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Hobson's after action report:

"After successfully driving off the Yankee line, Battle’s Brigade was halted and formed across the pike and perpendicular to it, to secure it. Just before the brigade reached this point its gallant commander, General Battle, received a wound while nobly charging the enemy and was borne from the field. Due to Colonel Forsyth of the 3rd Alabama being reported sick and absent, General Ramseur placed the next senior officer, Lieutenant Colonel Edwin L. Hobson of the 5th Alabama Infantry, in command of the brigade and ordered him to hold it there until he could bring up the rest of the division."

Source: Unpublished Report by Colonel Edwin L. Hobson commander of Battle’s Brigade at the Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, MSS1H6538a60 Virginia Historical Society