Battery M, 4th U.S. Artillery

Battery M, 4th U.S. Artillery, armed with 4 Napoleons and 2 24 PDR. Howitzers, served with Grose's Brigade, Palmer's Division, Crittenden's Corps on September 19, 1863, under 1st Lieut. Francis L. D. Russell, with 2d Lieut. John G. Butler. At 11 o'clock A.M. the battery moved from near Lee and Gordon's Mill, joined Grose's Brigade at Poe's about noon, and immediately advanced into action behind the brigade, which was in double line. After marching several hundred yards, Col. Grose ordered the battery into position on the crest of the ridge southeast of this position. As soon as it came into battery, the brigade was attacked, and the guns were fired down the hill over the heads of the infantry. The enemy finally withdrew and the firing ceased for some time. About 3 o'clock the enemy advanced again in heavy force. Clearly visible at that point, they were met with rapid canister fire. The attack proved too heavy to resist, and as the infantry fell back, the battery limbered up and retired to this position, forming on the right of Cushing's Battery. As the enemy continued to advance, the batteries on this line, with some twenty guns, opened with canister and quickly repulsed him. The battery bivouacked with the brigade in the Kelly field.

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