Artillery at Fairview

Chancellorsville

Artillery at Fairview

Over thirty Federal artillery pieces defended this position on the morning of May 3, 1863.  After three hours of fighting and their ammunition almost depleted, they retreated in the face of Confederate attacks.

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Lieutenant William M. Norman of the 2nd North Carolina Infantry, Ramseur’s Brigade: “When we arrived behind the breastworks where we had routed the enemy just in front of their batteries, forty-odd pieces of artillery were pouring out the grape and canister by the bushel on us.  We halted and began to pour volleys of musket and Minie balls into their ranks. I seized hold of one of my company’s guns and was shooting while he handed me cartridges. I could see the men shot through--some in the head and some torn all to pieces by the belching cannon in our front. . . . I have never in my life heard the missiles of death whistle so fast and thick around me.  I was very nearly covered in the earth many times by bombshells.” -- as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: Chancellorsville, page 112

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