Sarah Bell's Intruder
by American Landscapes
Title
Sarah Bell's Intruder
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American Landscapes
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Photograph - Photograph
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Mann’s Battery, Company C, 1st Missouri Light Artillery was heavily engaged on both days of the Battle of Shiloh. Armed with 2 6-pounder smoothbores and 2 12-pounder howitzers, the performance of this battery was such that General Hurlbut praised it in his official report. Upon hearing the sounds of battle early in the morning Lieutenant Brotzman ordered the battery to move forward to just south of the Hamburg-Purdy Road between Larkin Bell's and Sarah Bell's fields. This position shows Mann's Battery location in the middle of Sarah Bell's cottonfield where it was engaged between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m on April 6, 1862. The battery retreated when the infantry did and left one cannon disabled and two caissons without ammunition. Casualties over both days of the battle were 2 lieutenants wounded, 3 men killed and 12 men wounded, and 34 horses.
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January 8th, 2022
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