Captain Best’s Artillery

Chancellorsville

Captain Best’s Artillery

Captain Clermont Best commanded the Union artillery batteries who defended the high ground at Fairview during the Battle of Chancellorsville.

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Captain Charles Morse, staff officer: “I found I could be usefule to Captain Best, commanding our artillery, so I stayed with him.  I never saw anything so fine as the attack on that battery; the air was full of misslies, solid shot, shells, and musket balls.  I saw one solid shot kill three horses and a man, another took a leg off one of the captains of the batteries. Lieutenant Crosby of the Fourth Artillery was shot through the heart with a musket ball; he was a particular friend of Bob Shaw and myself; he lived just long enough to say to Captain Best, ‘Tell father I die happy.’” -- from a letter a few days after the battle, in Letters Written During the Civil War, 1861-1865, as quoted in Henry Steele Commager’s The Blue and the Gray, volume 1, page 254

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