21st Battery, Indiana Light Artillery

On September 19, 1863, the 21st Battery, Indiana Light Artillery, with 6 Napoleons in Turchin's Brigade, Reynolds' Division, Thomas' Corps, under Captain William W. Andrew, with 2d Lieutenant William E. Chess and 2d Lieutenant Abram P. Andrew, reached this ground near noon after an all night's march from the vicinity of Pond Spring and the Widow Glenn's and took position in the center of the brigade, where it expended some 180 rounds of ammunition. Soon after 3 pm, when the enemy's line and the troops on the right had given way, the brigade and battery changed front to the right and south, and as the enemy advanced from that direction the battery fired a few rounds of canister when the brigade charged, followed by the battery. After advancing some distance, the battery again came into position and fired canister and case shot, then was ordered back to its former position and from there to a ridge near the Chattanooga road, where it bivouacked for the night.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States