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On June 19, Capt. Charles L. Lumsden's Alabama battery on Big Kennesaw Mountain hit a railroad water tower, scattering both water and nearby Yankees, an unusually lucky shot for smoothbore Napoleon cannon. After the Confederates fired at the 1st Minnesota Battery on Brushy Mountain one mile north, the Confederate gunners came under heavy fire from the Federals' accurate, long-range rifled guns. After dark, the Confederates dragged their own rifled cannon up the mountain and placed them on the peak. Despite steady rainfall, Federal and Confederate forces bombarded each other intermittently day and night for a week. The cannonades caused little damage on either side, but their intensity led one Federal to remark that he had never seen such firing in a rainstorm or a worse mud hole.
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