The enemy attacked these with violence, but was repulsed.

This was in the forenoon of Sunday, the 19th.
General Slocum brought forward the two divisions of the Twentieth Corps, hastily disposed of them for defense, and General Kilpatrick massed his cavalry on the left.
General Jos.

Johnston had, the night before, marched his whole army (Bragg, Cheatham, S.D.Lee, Hardee, and all the troops he had drawn from every quarter), determined, as he told his men, to crash one of our corps, and then defeat us in detail.

He attacked General Slocum in position from 3 P.M.on the 19th till dark; but was everywhere repulsed, and lost heavily.

At the time, I was with the Fifteenth Corps, marching on a road more to the right; but, on hearing of General Slocum's danger, directed that corps toward Cox's Bridge, in the night brought Blair's corps over, and on the 20th marched rapidly on Johnston's flank and rear.