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battery but a caisson damaged by a Federal shell. In the evening the enemy
withdrew, having been repulsed in every assault. On May 1 Holmes Erwin was
appointed Junior Second Lieutenant of the battery (having furnished twenty-five
Tennessee recruits) and it was made a six-gun battery. About this time two more
guns were accordingly received from Richmond. On the nth orders were received
to join General Reynolds' Brigade at Clinton, Tennessee. This brigade consisted
of the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-ninth and Forty-third Georgia, and Thirty-ninth
North Carolina Regiments.

Again, on the 6th of June, the brigade proceeded to Chattanooga, Tennessee,
and thence, after a few days, to Morristown, and then Loudon, in the same State.
After a few days a march was made to Blain's Cross Roads, where the brigade
remained in camp till the 1st of August. Here the battery received fifty recruits
from Georgia.

The next movement was to Tazewell, in East Tennessee, where the enemy
was met, defeated and driven back to Cumberland Gap. On the night of the 16th
General Reynolds advanced to within four miles of the Gap, driving in the outposts
of the enemy, and seizing a range of hills in their front. This position was main-
tained till the 23d, when General Reynolds received orders from General E. Kirby
Smith to march by way of Roger's Gap and Cumberland Ford, and join him in
Kentucky. Richmond, Kentucky, was reached two days after the Confederate
victory at that place. The enemy had suffered the loss of all their artillery and
baggage wagons and the capture of their infantry force. In the subsequent
march through Kentucky to the Ohio River, Reynolds' Brigade overtook Smith's
advance, and the Third Maryland was the first to enter Lexington. They were
greeted on all sides with exclamations of joy and welcome. Great quantities of
clothing which had been captured were turned over to the Marylanders and others.
The command proceeded thence to Covington, opposite Cincinnati, the whole
movement being intended as a feint to draw troops from Louisville, on which
Bragg was advancing.

The Confederate advance was ordered back to Georgetown on the nth of
September, and on the 3d of October, at Big Eagle Creek, near Frankfort, there
was a review of Reynolds' Brigade by General E. Kirby Smith. When, on the
4th, Governor Hawes was inaugurated Military Governor of Kentucky, at
Frankfort, the Third Maryland Artillery was selected to fire the honorary salute
of fourteen guns.

That night, however, Frankfort was evacuated, and Smith retired towards
Harrodsburg. The battle of Perryville was followed by Bragg's withdrawal to
Tennessee, and the Third Maryland battery returned to Knoxville, via Cumberland
Gap, where needed repairs were received. On the retreat Reynolds' Brigade
closed the Confederate rear. While the Third Maryland was at Knoxville