Confederate Artillery

Artillery was an effective weapon, particularly when used in defensive combat. Nowhere was that demonstrated more clearly than here on Marye's Heights, where nine guns of the Washington Artillery shattered the ranks of the oncoming Union army. "The shells fell ...

Confederate Artillery Defense

About noon December 13, 1862

Army of Northern Virginia

General Robert E. Lee, Commander

Brigadier General W. N. Pendleton

Chief of Artillery

304 guns on the battlefield

Army of the Potomac

Major General A. E. Burnside, Commander

Brigadier General H. J. Hunt, Chief of Artillery

381 guns on the ...

Battle Between Confederate Gunboats and Union Field Artillery

(December 12, 1864)

In December, 1864, was fought on the Savannah River near here one of the few battles in which Confederate gunboats and Union field artillery were engaged against each other.

Colerain Plantation, as these lands were then known, had been ...