Campbell’s Battery

Second Manassas

Campbell’s Battery

Captain Joseph Campbell led Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery, which deployed here at Battery Heights to in response to Stonewall Jackson’s attack on the late afternoon of August 28, 1862--the beginning of the battle of Second Manassas

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Major Rufus R. Dawes of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry, Gibbon’s Brigade: “Suddenly the stillness was broken by six cannon shots fired in rapid succession, point blank at our regiment.  The shell passed over the heads of our men, and burst in the woods beyond.  Surpise is no sufficient word for our astonishment....’Bang! Bang!’ went the rebel cannon again. Again they overshot our men, but a poor horse was knocked over and over against the turnpike fence.  ‘Lie down!’ shouted Colonel Cutler. Fortunately a little bank along the roadside gave us good cover. Battery ‘B,’ 4th U.S. artillery, now came down the turnpike on a gallop. Quickly tearing away the fence, they wheeled into position in the open field, and the loud crack of their brass twelve pounders echoed the rebel cannon. Thus opened our first real battle.”  -- Dawes’ memoirs, Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, edited by Alan Nolan, as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: Second Manassas, page 98

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