Battery I, 4th U.S. Artillery

Battery I, 4th U.S. Artillery, with four light 12-pounders in Van Derveer's Brigade, Brannan's Division, Thomas' Corps, marched all night from the vicinity of Owen's ford on the Chickamauga by way of Crawfish Spring, Kelly's house, and McDonald's, and without breakfast encountered the enemy on this ground about 8 a.m. on September 19, 1863. The battery was posted with one section between the two infantry regiments in line and the other on their right, both changing front as needed to meet successive attacks from the southeast, east, and northeast. First Lieutenant George B. Rodney commanded the 1st Section, Second Lieutenant John M. Stephenson the 2d Section, and First Lieutenant Frank G. Smith, commanding the battery, remained with the latter; Second Lieutenant Nicholas Redmond was wounded. Fighting ceased about 1 p.m., and about 2 p.m., after the enemy withdrew, the brigade, including the battery, moved to the LaFayette road and eventually bivouacked for the night on the ridge west of the Dyer field. The day's casualties were 1 officer and 11 enlisted men wounded, 1 limber blown up, and 16 horses permanently disabled.

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