![]() NPS Photo Virginia The battery was closely engaged in the battle of Port Gibson, May 1: Its causalities were severe but not fully reported. Lieuts. Phillip Peters, William P. Douthat and William H. Norgrove killed. Engaged in the battle of Champion’s Hill, May 16. At the angle on the Confederate Line. Its causalities were severe but not reported. The First Captain of the Battery. Major. Joesph W. Anderson. Division Chief of Artillery. Killed. The Battery, without guns, fell back with the Army to Vicksburg, where it received two 6-pounder guns. Most of its enlisted men, under Lieut. Francis G. Obenchain, were armed with Enfield rifles and served in the trenches on the river front line from South Fort on the left to the first work on the right of that Johnston served as inspector General of Light Artillery. Stevenson’s Division, from June 2 to the end of the defense. July 4, 1863. |
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