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U. S. CIVIL WAR
PHOTOGRAPHS
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MURFREESBORO
(STONES RIVER)
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Abandoned Union Cannon (H)
These two Wiard rifled cannon
represent two of the four guns lost by Lt. Alexander Marshall of Battery G 1st Ohio
light Artillery
(originally two 12 pdr. howitzers, two 12 pdr Wiard rifles, and two six
pdr. Wiard rifles.) These guns vallantly but vainly tried to check the
Confederate advance by firing repeated charges of canister then
retreating "by prolonge" to fire again. The guns were abandoned when most
of the horses were killed and the Confederates were but 40 yards from the
guns. In this area 14 Union cannon were lost to the Confederates by
Sheridan and Negley's Divisions.
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Michigan Marker (Front view). (H)
Near the Abandoned Cannon pictured above.
(Photograph taken with photographer
facing the sun.)
Michigan Marker (Back view). (H)
(Photograph taken with the sun behind
the photographer.)
Alabama cannon were unable to advance because of (H)
the Union cannon fire and the dense Cedar forest.
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Rosecrans rushed fresh troops from Maj. Gen. Thomas Critterden's left wing into
position along the Nashville Pike and the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad.
There, they beat back one Confederate attack after another, inflicting very heavy
casualties.
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