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The 4th Indiana Battery, under Lieutenant David Flansburg and Lieutenant Henry J. Willitts, served in the Second Brigade under Starkweather, the First Division under Baird, and the Fourteenth Corps under Thomas. On September 19th, the battery went into action northwest of the Reed Field at 10 a.m. Five of its guns were captured but were soon recovered, and the battery retired to refit. It then returned to the field with four guns and was engaged in the night fighting in which Colonel Baldwin was killed. It subsequently withdrew to the Kelly Field. On September 20th, it moved into this position at 9 a.m. and held it until 5:30 p.m., at times fighting desperately, and at sunset retired with the brigade to Rossville.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States
