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On September 19, 1863, Bledsoe's Missouri Battery, with two 3-inch rifles and two 12-pounder howitzers, served with Gregg's Brigade, Johnson's Division, Longstreet's Corps, under 1st Lieutenant R. L. Wood, with 1st Lieutenant Chas. W. Higgins, 2nd Lieutenant H. W. Anderson, 2nd Lieutenant John S. Wheatly, and 2nd Lieutenant L. L. Maughas. The battery came into position on this ground about 7 A.M. on the 19th on the right of Gregg's and left of Fulton's brigades, and was there when the Union line, about 2 P.M., advanced and drove in the skirmishers. The battery then opened fire in the direction of the Viniard house and aided materially in repulsing the attack in this vicinity. It followed the brigade in its advance about 2:30 P.M., but owing to the dense timber was not engaged again that day.
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