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Article: THE USE OF ARTILLERY DURING THE BATTLE

A duel between Federal and Confederate artillery erupted at Guesses Creek bottom west of Jenkins' ferry before the main fighting on the 30th. Federal Lieutenant Charles W. Thomas of the Springfield Light Artillery serving as a rear guard for the VII Corps threw his guns into action against Confederate Captain Harris' four-gun battery. At least one house in the area was hit by shot and shell.

The Springfield Light Artillery was later positioned at a house on the ridge overlooking the Saline bottom. As Confederate troops approached, they were raked with canister. Confederate cannon were called in and returned the Federal fire which now switched to shot and shell. The Confederate battery was quickly withdrawn.

As the VII Corps moved into the bottom, Federal artillery was redeployed in a muddy cornfield near Cox Creek. confederate Captain Lesueur's battery was ordered to rake the underbrush with canister. When they opened fire, the 12-pounder howitzers sank up to their axles in the mire. Confederate Lieutenant John O. Lockhart now moved forward with a section of Ruffner's battery which blasted into the 2nd Kansas and the 29th Iowa Regiments.
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Lockhart's gunners were charged by the two Federal regiments who captured the two 6-pounders and their caissons as well as an abandoned howitzer.

Dr. J. M. Brown, chaplain of the 29th Arkansas Volunteers said that two of the brass rifled cannons captured had been captured earlier in 1862 from Federals at Oak Hills battle in Missouri and that it was reported that there was a reward of $6,000 offered for their recapture.

Another witness says that these captured Confederate guns were dragged off the field by the black soldiers of the 2nd Kansas Volunteers. At the river the three guns were spiked, their wheels knocked out, and rolled into the river.

It is not known whether these guns were recovered by Confederate troops still on the battlefield, since at this writing the river is still at flood stage.

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