Battery H, 5th U.S. Artillery

On September 19, 1863, Battery H, 5th U.S. Artillery, with four Napoleons and two Parrotts, served in King's Brigade, Baird's Division, Thomas' Corps. After an all night's march on September 18 from the vicinity of Bird's mill on Chickamauga via Crawfish Spring and Widow Glenn's, the battery arrived at Kelly's House and took position in line of battle soon after daybreak. About nine o'clock, the advance was ordered eastward, and after driving the enemy for a considerable distance, the brigade was ordered by General Baird to form a new front at right angles with the other, facing south. The battery was hardly in position before troops on the right gave way in confusion, exposing it to a terrific fire of musketry from the front and flank. At the first fire, 1st Lieutenant Howard M. Burnham was killed, and 2d Lieutenants Israel Ludlow and Joshua A. Fessenden were wounded. The officers and men remained with their pieces firing until the enemy forcibly took them, but the battery was quickly recaptured by the 9th Ohio of Brannan's Division. Its casualties were 1 officer killed, 2 officers wounded, 12 enlisted men killed, 16 enlisted men wounded, 13 enlisted men missing, 45 horses killed, 20 horses wounded, and 6 caissons abandoned. It was not engaged on September 20.

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