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Massenburg's Georgia Battery, armed with two 10-pounder Parrotts in Robertson's Reserve Artillery and commanded on September 20, 1863 by Captain Thomas L. Massenburg with 1st Lieutenant J.F. Greer, 2d Lieutenant George B. Forster, and 2d Lieutenant R.G. Burgess, was not engaged on the 19th, but came into position on this ground soon after noon on the 20th and opened fire on the enemy as it fell back on Snodgrass Hill. About 5 p.m. the battery again came into position on the left of Major Williams' Battalion, northwest of this ground, and opened fire until the line on its right was abandoned and the Confederate infantry line intervened. Its casualties were 1 officer wounded, 3 men wounded, and 1 horse killed.
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