U.S. Battery Benton.

At Battery Benton, Acting Master J. Frank Reed of the gunboat "Benton" commanded a detachment of Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery under Lieut. Joseph B. Atwater and a detail of enlisted men from the 34th Iowa Infantry, who served two 42-pounder rifled guns in this position from the morning of July 1 to the end of the siege on July 4, 1863. On July 1, a shell from the Confederate mortar in South Fort exploded in the battery, killing two and badly wounding 4 enlisted men of the 34th Iowa Infantry.

Vicksburg, Louisiana · United States