The marker for Law’s Brigade of Hood’s Divisionis on the east side of Smoketown Road at Cornfield Avenue. (Smoketown Road South tour map) The story of the brigade is continued on marker 330.
From the marker:
C.S.A.
Longstreet’s Command
Law’s Brigade, Hood’s Division
Col. E. M. Law, 4th Alabama Infantry, Commanding.
Organization.
4th Alabama Infantry
6th North Carolina Infantry
2nd Mississippi Infantry
11th Mississippi Infantry
September 16, 1862.
On the evening of the 16th, Law’s Brigade advanced from the fields in front of the Dunkard Church to a position in the East Woods, on either side of the Smoketown Road, where it supported the skirmishers of Wofford’s Brigade in resisting the advance of Seymour’s Brigade.
The engagement ceased at dark. At 10 P. M. the Brigade was relieved by Trimble’s Brigade of Ewell’s Division, and withdrawn to the woods west of the Dunkard Church.
No. 329.
