Fowler’s Alabama Battery

On September 19, 1863, Fowler’s Alabama Battery, with four Napoleons and attached to Walthall’s Brigade, Liddell’s Division, Walker’s Corps, followed the brigade during the morning and was under fire but not then engaged. About 3:30 P.M. the battery came into position on this ground in rear of the division and opened fire on an enemy battery to the left, causing it to withdraw hastily. At that time one section under 1st Lieut. John Phelan was sent forward in support of the brigade, then engaging the enemy. Mistaking an Arkansas regiment for one of the brigade, this section went into the fight with it, but when it met an overwhelming enemy force the infantry was compelled to retire. All the horses of the two pieces were killed or wounded, and many cannoneers and drivers of the section were killed or wounded at their posts fighting the guns to the last extremity; one piece was brought off with wounded horses, the other was captured by the enemy but later recovered.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States