Our Batteries Opened a Tremendous Fire

Our Batteries Opened a Tremendous Fire. The Union Artillery at the Battle of Reed's Bridge. You are standing near where Battery K Second Missouri Light Artillery under Lieutenant T.S. Clarkson, Battery M, Second Missouri Light Artillery under Captain Gustave Stange and the Twenty-Fifth Ohio Battery under Captain Julius L. Hadley fought on August 27, 1863. Following the First Iowa Cavalry Regiment's failed attempt to capture the bridge across Bayou Metro, the Federal und Confederate artillery engaged in a fierce duel that lasted until near sundown. , "Bullets were flying thick from the sharpshooters and it was rather dangerous to expose one's person too much. We formed on the right of Clarkson's Battery and run our guns up to the brow of the hill on the field and opened up with shell - Col. Glover directing the fire. He said we placed shells in the very midst of the enemy." , - Robert T. McMahan, Twenty-Fifth Ohio Battery, "Our artillery was instantly ordered up, with supports, and placed in position under continued fire from that of the enemy. Our batteries. in position, opened a tremendous fire, soon silencing the enemy s guns and driving them from their position. , - Col. John M. Glover, , Third Missouri Cavalry, U.S., "Their artillery was well planted, and was served with steadiness and precision. They opened with twelve or sixteen guns." , - Major John Newman Edwards, C.S.A. , Parrot Rifle , Battery M Second Missouri Light Artillery fought with six 12 pounder mountain howitzers., Battery K. Second Missouri Light Artillery was armed with two 3-inch rifled guns and two 12 pound heavy howitzers., Six Pounder , The Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery was armed with four 1841 Six-Pounder cannons converted with James Rifling and two 3-inch 1861 rifled guns.