Porter's Battery

Porter’s Battery, part of Colonel John C. Brown’s Brigade in C.S.A. Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner’s Division, occupied a salient with six guns that swept all approaches to the front and flanked the trenches to the right and left. On February 13, 1862, it helped repulse an attack by part of General Smith’s division against the right of the intrenchments, and later that day it joined Graves’ battery in silencing McAllister’s battery on the opposite hill. On February 15, a section of the battery moved to the left of the Confederate line and served the guns of Green’s battery in the attack on the Federal line. Late that afternoon, after Federal troops had occupied the rifle pits on the extreme right, it helped prevent a further Federal advance. In this last action, the battery commander, Captain Thomas K. Porter, was seriously wounded.

Dover, Tennessee · United States