The Battle of Chickamauga:
September 20th, 1863

The 22nd Alabama lost their Lieutenant Colonel, John Weedon, when he valiantly tried to urge the men on by grabbing the colors. The 22nd also lost 175 killed and wounded out of their 400 that went into battle. Altogether, five color bearers of the 22nd were shot down during the assault. The 25th Alabama is recorded as being 'fearfully mutilated'
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Report of Captain Harry T. Toulmin, Twenty-second Alabama Infantry.

HDQRS. TWENTY-SECOND ALABAMA REGIMENT,
Missionary Ridge, October 5, 1863.

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report the part taken by the Twenty-second Alabama Regiment in the battle of Chickamauga:

. . . . It was here that Captain J. D. Nott and Lieutenant Waller Mordecai, of Company B, fell mortally wounded. No truer patriots ever liver; no better, braver soldiers ever died. Here, too, Sergeant Laery, of Company H, bravely bearing the colors, fell severely wounded. The colors were then seized by Lieutenant Leonard, of Company K, and borne by him until he was wounded and forced to give them up. They then fell into the hands of Lieutenant Renfro, of Company K, who gallantly carried them to the front and planted them almost within the enemy's line. Moving rapidly forward, amid a destructive fire of shot and shell, some 200 yards across an open field, the regiment became engaged with a second line of battle, which obstinately contested every foot of ground over which it passed. Here took place a terrible conflict, which lasted about 20 minutes, and in which we lost many brave spirits, none of whom deserves more honorable mention than Lieutenant A. B. Renfro, who fell pierced through the head with colors in hand. Here too, fell our brave, our true, our esteemed commander, Lieutenant Colonel John Weedon. Having led with distinguished coolness and bravery his command to within 20 paces of the enemy's line, he fell to rise no more. He fell beneath the honored folds of that cherished flag under which he had so gallantly led his brave men. . . . .

. . . . Here, I regret to state, we lost our colors. Private Braswell, of Company A, who was then bearing them, fearlessly rushed to the front and in advance of the line, and was there riddled with balls, as was subsequently shown by the recovery of his body. The fire at this time was such at to throw the regiment into confusion, in which the loss of Private Braswell and colors was not discovered until too late to rescue them, for amid this confusion the regiment fell back, and was unable afterward to regain its lost position. . . .

OR V30, Pt. 2, Ser. 051, THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN,
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