Humphreys’ Arkansas Battery

Humphreys’ Arkansas Battery, with 2 Napoleons and 2 12 PDR. howitzers in Clayton’s Brigade, Stewart’s Division, Buckner’s Corps, advanced closely with the brigade on September 19, 1863, and came into battery in the brigade’s rear as heavy fighting began about 2:30 P.M., but could not fire because the brigade’s men were directly between the guns and the enemy. After an hour of fighting, the enemy gave way and the brigade advanced, followed by the battery to the Chattanooga Road, where it took position on this ground, but the brigade’s men were too scattered in front and on the right for the battery to fire without endangering them. There the enemy opened a hot and well directed fire on the battery, disabling two limbers and killing and wounding 12 horses. When the brigade retired from the charge and the battery still could not fire safely, it limbered up with difficulty and withdrew. The battery was not engaged on September 20. Its casualties were 1 man killed and 3 wounded, and 9 horses killed and 4 wounded.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States