12-pounder bronze Napoleons #144 - Chickamauga National Battlefield
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N 34° 55.295 W 085° 15.613
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This 12-pounder bronze Napoleons is near the marker to Culpeper’s South Carolina Battery and is located at the south end of Poe's Field on the east side of Lafayette Rd, Chickamauga National Battlefield.
Waymark Code: WME5B8
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 04/05/2012
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One of many cannons on the Chickamauga National Battlefield. The
Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863.
From Wikipedia:
"The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg."
Battle of Chickamauga
Foundry |
Revere Copper Co., Boston MA
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Registry # |
144 |
Inspector |
TJR |
Weight |
1249 lbs |
Year made |
1862 |
Reference: Robinson's Battery - National Register of Surviving Civil War Artillery;
Sites A - F
A nearby plaque describes the actions of Culpeper’s South Carolina Battery on that day.
Culpeper’s South Carolina Battery |
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1 Napoleon, 2 12 PDR Howitzers |
McNair’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, Hood’s Corps |
September 20, 1863 |
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| Capt. James F. Culpeper, Commanding. | |
| 1st Lieut. J.L.S. Dove. | |
| 1st Lieut. J.L. Moses. | |
| 2d Lieut. Henry J. Ham. | |
| 2d Lieut. Perry Moses. | |
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In the morning the battery was in position on the right of the brigade on a ridge southeast of here. When the enemy advanced about 10:30 P.M., the battery opened fire, aiding in repulsing the attack. In the general advance about 11 A.M., the battery came in position near and north of the Brotherton House and opened fire on the enemy over the heads of the advancing Confederates. About noon it again came into action in the southwest corner of the Poe Field, aiding in forcing the enemy back on Snodgrass Ridge, and later in the day by order of Gen. Longstreet came into action on this ground and opened on the enemy who was crossing the road from his left to his right and continued to fire doing fine execution, till Gen. Stewart's Division in its advanced intervened. The battery fired from this position 250 rounds.
Casualties of the battle: 5 severely and 9 slightly wounded.
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More information:
Wikipedia -
Field artillery in the American Civil War
Wikipedia -
Twelve-pound cannon