Culpepper's South Carolina Battery

On September 20, 1863, Culpepper's South Carolina Battery, part of McNair's Brigade, Johnson's Division, Hood's Corps, was armed with 1 Napoleon and 2 12 Pounder Howitzers and commanded by Captain James F. Culpepper, with 1st Lieutenant J.L.S. Dove, 1st Lieutenant J.L. Moses, 2d Lieutenant Henry J. Ham, and 2d Lieutenant Perry Moses. In the morning the battery was posted on the right of the brigade on a ridge southeast of here, and when the enemy advanced about 10:30 a.m. it opened fire and helped repulse the attack. In the general advance about 11 a.m. it moved into position near and north of the Brotherton House and fired on the enemy over the heads of the advancing Confederates. About noon it went into action again in the southwest corner of the Poe Field, helping force the enemy back on Snodgrass Ridge, and later in the day, by order of General Longstreet, it opened fire on the enemy crossing the road from left to right and continued firing with fine execution until General Stewart's division advancing intervened. From this position the battery fired 250 rounds. Its battle casualties were 5 severely wounded and 9 slightly wounded.

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