At Glass's Mill during the Battle of Chickamauga, the battle's only true artillery duel took place on Saturday, the 19th. At 9 a.m., Captain Robert Cobb, commanding Cobb's Kentucky Battery, was ordered by General Helm to send one 12-pounder Napoleon gun and one 12-pounder howitzer across the ford at Glass's Mill to support skirmishers in front of the Second and Sixth Kentucky regiments and to fire on a house in an open field 500 yards away to dislodge enemy skirmishers. The Confederate fire was answered by an enemy battery positioned to the right and rear of the house about 900 yards distant; after five rounds, Cobb's guns were withdrawn to cover, and the enemy fire ceased. Cobb was then ordered to bring up his remaining three Napoleon guns and cooperate with Captain C. H. Slocomb's battery, and after a few rounds from the two batteries, the enemy guns were silenced. General John C. Breckinridge later recalled that on the morning of the 19th, Slocomb with four guns, Cobb with two, and the rest of Helm's brigade crossed Glass's Ford to determine the enemy's position, while two rifled pieces of Slocomb's battery under Lieutenant Vaught took position on a bluff east of the stream; the artillery engagement at first favored the Confederates until the enemy, holding the better position, brought forward heavy guns. Major-General James Negley wrote that very early that morning the enemy advanced a heavy line of skirmishers against Beatty's exposed front, and at 11:30 planted two batteries within 400 yards of Beatty's position, beginning a fierce cannonade in which Bridges' Battery suffered losses in men and horses. Part of Beatty's line was driven back but soon reestablished, and with support from one regiment, the Eighteenth Ohio Volunteers, and a section of Schultz's Battery, Beatty repulsed the attack at 12:30 p.m.

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington