2006 RV - Doug & Crystal

You can see Michigan monumnet in the background. Really a nice monument. From this position a battery of guns, including those from the 8th Michigan Artillery commanded by Capt. Samuel DeGolyer, hammered the Confederate Great Redoubt directly ahead. At one time as many as 22 Federal artillery pieces were mounted here. Captain DeGolyer was mortally wounded while directing the fire of this battery. From this position a battery of guns, including those from the 8th Michigan Artillery commanded by Capt. Samuel DeGolyer, hammered the Confederate Great Redoubt directly ahead. At one time as many as 22 Federal artillery pieces were mounted here. Captain DeGolyer was mortally wounded while directing the fire of this battery.
(Battery DeGolyer) and the Michigan Memorial. Site Marker: Yost's Independent Ohio Battery; 3d Div.:17th Corps: Army of the Tennessee. Capt. T. D. Yost. The battery was company F, 32d regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. Prior to the battle of Champion's Hill, May 16, two 12-pounder guns and four 3-inch rifles captured in that battle were turned over to it.

Two sections served two 12-pounder guns and two 3-inch rifles in this position from about May 25 to the end of the siege, July 4, 1863, except that about June 29, the two 12-pounder guns were moved to and served in an advanced battery near the Jackson Road