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Dent's Alabama Battery, armed with 6 Napoleons and attached to Deas’ Brigade, Hindman's Division, Polk’s Corps, was commanded on Sept. 20, 1863, at noon by Capt. S. H. Dent, with 1st Lieut. W. T. Stockton, 2nd Lieut. D. L. Southwick, and 2nd Lieut. G. B. Zeigler. From a position southeast of Brotherton’s, the battery soon after 11 A.M. moved with its brigade in the general advance of the left wing, firing a few shots over the heads of the Confederate infantry until the enemy and the pursuing infantry had disappeared from its front. Hearing vigorous firing to the northwest, Dent then moved the battery to this position, where it fired through the mouth of the gap near the Vittetoe house at passing enemy wagon trains and artillery moving rapidly toward Chattanooga, throwing them into confusion, blocking the road, and helping secure the capture of many wagons, cassons, and other matériel.
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