C. S. A.
BRIGADIER GENERAL SIMON B. BUCKNER’S DIVISION
COLONEL JOHN C. BROWN’S BRIGADE
PORTER’S BATTERY
This battery of 6 guns occupied this salient, sweeping all
approaches to the front and flanking the trenches to the right and left.
On February 13, 1862, the battery assisted in the repulse of
an attack made by a portion of General Smith’s Division against the right of
the intrenchments. Later in the day it
had occupied a position on the opposite hill.
On February 15, 1 section of this battery moved to the left
of the Confederate line and there served the guns of Greene’s Battery Assisting
on in the attack upon the Federal line.
Late in the afternoon, after Federal troops had occupied the rifle pits
on the extreme right, this battery assisted in preventing a further advance by
the Federals. In this last action the
battery commander, Captain Thomas K. Porter, was seriously wounded.
6-POUNDER GUN
The 6-pounder was the prime artillery piece of the Mexican
War and the smallest regulation gun of the Civil War. The confederacy and the Union armies in the
west used it extensively, but it was replaced in the Union armies in the east
by the Napoleon and the rifled gun. Its
normal range was 1500 yards. It fired
fixed ammunition – either solid shot, spherical case, or canister.
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