Hello everyone. I've been researching the September 10, 1864 "Assault on the Confederate Work at the Chimneys" for a 150th anniversary post on my Siege of Petersburg site (http://www.beyondthecrater.com). The little fight happened along the Jerusalem Plank Road at the ruins of the Gregory house, referred to as "The Chimneys" at this point in the Siege. The Chimneys is located between Fort Sedgwick and Fort Mahone, the famous Forts Hell and Damnation. The Official Records are very clear on the three Union regiments involved in this skirmish, the 20th IN, 2nd USSS, and 99th PA. However, I've found literally nothing to help me with the identity of the Confederate regiments facing them.

I'd like to know which Confederate regiments (or at least brigades) manned the lines south of Petersburg along the Jerusalem Plank Road, just east of Fort Mahone, aka "Fort Damnation" in early September 1864. One clue I have is that approximately 100 Confederates were captured in the picket line during this fight, so theoretically any regiments involved would have had an unusually large number of captured/missing for September 9-10, 1864 (fighting happened at 1 a. m. on the 10th, but I've seen some Richmond papers refer to it as the "night of the 9th".) I suspect the units there had to be in A. P. Hill's Third Corps, but I'm not sure which division (Mahone, Heth, Wilcox), much less which brigade.

Is there a web site you know of where I might be able to quickly check casualties for the Confederate regiments of the Third Corps to see if I can find unusually large casualties for early September? I know of no other way to establish the Confederate regiments' identity with the sources I have at home.

Brett Schulte