Tour Stop-1: Battery DeGolyer Page1     Page2
 

(3-93)  NPS Tour Guide: From this position a battery of guns, including those from the 8th Michigan Artillery commanded by Capt. Samuel DeGolyer, hammered the Confederate Great Redoubt directly ahead. At one time as many as 22 Federal artillery pieces were mounted here. Captain DeGolyer was mortally wounded while directing the fire of this battery

(3-97) South of Battery DeGolyer and the Michigan Memorial. Site Marker: Yost's Independent Ohio Battery; 3d Div.:17th Corps: Army of the Tennessee. Capt. T. D. Yost. The battery was company F, 32d regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. Prior to the battle of Champion's Hill, May 16, two 12-pounder guns and four 3-inch rifles captured in that battle were turned over to it. Two sections served two 12-pounder guns and two 3-inch rifles in this position from about May 25 to the end of the siege, July 4, 1863, except that about June 29, the two 12-pounder guns were moved to and served in an advanced battery near the Jackson Road

(3-1996) Enlarge Union Ave. south of Battery DeGolyer, near Minnesota Monument. Marker: U.S. 6th Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, 7th Div. 17th Corps, Army of the Tennessee. Capt. Henry Dillon. Lieut. Samuel F. Clark. The battery served its pieces in temporary positions near the Jackson Road from May 19 to about May 31. One section served two 12-pounder howitzers in this position from about May 31 to the end of the siege, July 4, 1863

(March 17, 2013) Enlarge Great Redoubt and Louisiana Monument from Battery DeGolyer

(March 17, 2013) Enlarge Battery DeGolyer and Michigan Monument from near Old Park Office

(March 17, 2013) Enlarge Close-up of Battery DeGolyer and Michigan Monument from near Old Park Office