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The U.S. 8th Battery, Michigan Light Artillery, of the 3d Division, 17th Corps, Army of the Tennessee, under Capt. Samuel De Golyer, was the initial battery of Maj. Gen. John A. Logan’s division to arrive on the field around 10:30 a.m., May 12, 1863. De Golyer placed his six guns near the Fourteenmile Creek bridge, with two 12-pounder howitzers to the left of the Utica Road and four 12-pounder James rifles to the right of the road. The battery soon fell back 260 yards to a position west of the Utica Road on the higher ground of Artillery Ridge.
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