2nd Minnesota Battery

The 2nd Minnesota Battery, part of Battery Minnesota Light Artillery, fielded 2 10-pounder Parrotts and 4 Napoleons with Carlin's Brigade, Davis' Division, McCook's Corps. On September 19, 1863, with 1st Lieutenant Albert Woodbury commanding after being wounded, alongside 1st Lieutenant Richard L. Dawley, 2d Lieutenant Henry W. Harder, and 2d Lieutenant Alexander Kinkead, the battery arrived at Widow Glenn's about noon and followed its brigade into action east of Viniard's about 2 p.m. By order of General Davis, under brisk skirmish fire, it took position on this ground on the right of the division and opened on the enemy, effectively checking his advance in front and preventing him from extending his left beyond General Davis' right. After holding that position for several hours, the division and battery were forced back to the timber on the west side of Chattanooga and LaFayette Road, where the battery again took position and, with the line of infantry and other artillery, helped check the enemy's further advance. When other troops arrived, the battery and division retired several hundred yards to the rear and bivouacked for the night. The battery was not seriously engaged on September 20 and retired soon after noon under orders to McFarland's Gap and to Rossville at night. Its casualties were 1 officer and 1 private wounded.

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