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Champion Hill "re-enactment"

From battleofchampionhill.org:

"Immediately following the presentation at the cemetery, a skirmish between Union and Confederates re-enactors will take place. The Union cannons will be firing from the mound site while the Confederates return fire from the grounds of Matilda Champion’s house. The crowd is encouraged to follow the 'guns' along the old roadbed as they move toward the placement of General Hovey’s reinforcements who entered in the fight near the close of the battle."

From a battle re-enactment perspective, this doesn't make sense. The Confederates and Federals are facing the wrong direction. I checked the area today to see if the spot where Hovey's guns were sitting had been cleared in preparation for a re-enactment, and it was not. Does anyone know what mound this paragraph is talking about?

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