Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery

On September 20, 1863, Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery, part of Connell's Brigade, Brennan's Division, Thomas' Corps, was commanded by Captain Josiah W. Church, with 1st Lieutenant Henry B. Corbin, 1st Lieutenant Edward S. Wheat, 2nd Lieutenant Daniel W. Sawyer, and 2nd Lieutenant Jesse B. Fuller, and fielded two 10-pounder Parrotts, two James guns, and two 12-pounder howitzers. The battery moved from the Dyer field at midnight and came into position on this ground about 9 a.m. in the center of the brigade front line, where it remained when the Confederate advance began about 11 a.m. As the enemy came very near, the guns were fired double-shotted with canister, checking the attack until four pieces were run to the rear 50 yards. Three pieces were abandoned and three were limbered up and moved to the hill at the northwest end of Dyer farm with the reserve artillery. With the enemy pressing hard on the front and right flank there, two more pieces were abandoned, and the remainder of the battery withdrew to the rear on the McFarland's Gap road. Its casualties were 1 officer and 6 men wounded and 4 men missing, and its losses were 5 guns, 4 limbers, and 35 horses killed.

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