318:'s Kanawha Division which was skirmishing with Confederate forces. Willcox deployed his troops on Cox's right and drawn back at an angle like an inverted V. A section of Cook's 8th Massachusetts Battery unlimbered at the apex of the angle, about 400 yd (370 m) from the summit. These guns dueled with John Lane's Confederate battery for a short time before one gun was disabled. Another gun was moving up to replace the damaged piece when James W. Bondurant's Confederate battery suddenly opened a heavy fire from a distance of 600 yd (550 m). Cook's limber drivers panicked and rode to the rear through the lines of the
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as it retreated through its ranks. Soon after, Coffin's section took post on the right flank of the 35th
Massachusetts and helped it hold its position. One of Coffin's shells exploded next to a gun in David G. McIntosh's Confederate battery, mortally wounding a gunner.
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627:Johnson, Curt; Anderson, Richard C. Jr. (1995).
333:Map shows the fighting around Burnside's Bridge.
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672:Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
303:was trying to turn the Federal right flank,
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676:. New Haven, Conn.: Ticknor & Fields.
597:Carman, Ezra (2008). Joseph Pierro (ed.).
198:8th Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery
320:17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
619:A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
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367:A. P. Hill
206:Union Army
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