Union Battery No. 5

At this position, the 1st Maine Battery, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Eben D. Hale, manned four rifled 6-pounders during the siege and dueled with Watson's Louisiana Battery, located 400 yards away at Bennett's Redoubt. Captain John M. Stanyon of Company B, 8th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, recalled that white crosses nailed to tree trunks had evidently been used for practice to get the exact range of the rebel guns, and that they had it. He recounted a section of the First Maine Battery plunging forward into position as shots came thick, a wheel was knocked to pieces, several horses were killed, and a lieutenant, his clothing torn by a shell and bloody from head to foot, came down the slope coolly asking where he could find a surgeon.

Louisiana · United States