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Thunder In The Hills:
Both armies used artillery during the battle and the booming of their cannon could be heard for twenty miles.
The Confederates Shot Solid Balls and Log Chains:
"Whiz came a cannon ball... and immediately after a log chain followed is whirling through the air."
-- Correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette
The Union Fired Exploding Shells:
"The shells whistled through the air... and fell bursting away in the valley below."
-- Stephen Keyes Fletcher, 33rd Indiana Infantry
"Heavy" Artillery:
On the evening after the battle, anticipating another attack, Union soldiers hauled two cannon weighing nearing a ton each up this hill to the top of Hoosier Knob.
"We met a hundred men dragging two of the heavy guns up the hill, a work one would almost conceive impossible..."
-- Correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette |