Union Artillery

On a hot and hazy August morning at the Battle of Richmond, Gen. Mahlon Manson placed his brigade on the best available high ground between his column and Confederate forces advancing from the south. When the leading Confederate infantry came into view, the Union artillery opened fire, beginning a two hour duel led by Lt. Edwin O. Lanphere's 1st Michigan Light Artillery Battery F. Lanphere commanded six guns, the standard number in a Union battery, but his force had been assembled from available units, with four guns from his own Battery F and two from Lt. Byron D. Paddock's Battery G. The exact types of Union guns are unknown, though Gen. Charles Cruft referred to a Rodman, a three-inch ordnance rifle common in Union service, and Confederate Gen. Patrick Cleburne reported that the Union army also used a little mountain howitzer captured the day before from Colonel Scott.

Kentucky · United States