Federal Cavalry and Artillery Formed First Battle Line Here

Federal cavalry and artillery formed a first battle line here, stretching from 500 hundred yards north to more than a mile south across the Guntown Road. Fighting from behind rail fences and dense scrub-oak thickets, this line resisted stubbornly as Confederates pushed on to the crossroads, and hand-to-hand fighting took place along it. At the northern end of the line were Company H of the 7th Indiana, the 4th Missouri, and the 4th Missouri Battery. On the north side of the road was the 14th Indiana Battery. On the south side of the road were the 7th Indiana, the 2nd New Jersey, the 3rd Iowa Battalion, the 4th Iowa, and the 3rd Iowa Battalion.

Guntown, Mississippi · United States