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Around 9:30 a.m., May 12, 1863, Brig. Gen. John Gregg placed Capt. Hiram M. Bledsoe’s Missouri Battery here on a knoll at the junction of the Port Gibson and Utica roads, where its two 12-pounder smoothbores and one Whitworth rifle commanded the Fourteenmile Creek bridge 870 yards away. At 10 a.m. the guns opened fire on Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson’s approaching Federals of the XVII Corps. Around 2:30 p.m. the Whitworth burst during firing, and by 4:00 p.m. Gregg began withdrawing his outnumbered troops from the field. No casualties were reported.
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