Artillery Sunset at Malvern Hill

Seven Days Battles:
Malvern Hill

Artillery Sunset at Malvern Hill

The sun sets behind the Confederate artillery position at the base of Malvern Hill.

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Captain Carey Grimes, commanding a field artillery battery: “General Armistead asked me if I could carry my battery on the hill. I told him if any battery in the world could go mine could.  He directed General Wright to show me the position to take, which he did. I found the enemy with their batteries planted and their infantry drawn up in line of battle at about 1,200 yards distant. I then went to the rear for my battery and carried it on the field. As soon as the battery entered the field the enemy opened fire on it, killing 1 man and wounding 3 and killing 1 horse and wounding 2 before I fired a gun.  I unlimbered and commenced firing as soon as possible and with telling effect on the enemy.” -- from Grimes’ battle report, in War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series I, volume 11, part 2, page 282

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