d from the guns they would not abandon.

General Rosecrans in his notice, in orders, of the facts and results of
the battle of Iuka, states that the Eleventh Ohio Battery participated:

"Under circumstances of danger and exposure such as rarely, perhaps
never, have fallen to the lot of one single battery during this
war."

In the same order the commanding General further states:

"On a narrow front, intersected by ravines and covered with dense
undergrowth, with a single battery, Hamilton's division went into
action against the combined rebel hosts. On that unequal ground,
which permitted the enemy to outnumber them three to one, they
fought a glorious battle, mowing down the rebel hordes until, night
closing in, they rested on their arms on the ground, from which the
enemy retired during the night, leaving us masters of the field."

General Hamilton's official report, in describing the action of the
Union left flank, states:

"Colonel Sanborn, in command of the first brigade, most gallantly
held the left in position until, under a desolating carnage of
musketry and canister, the brave Eddy was cut down, and his
regiment, borne down by five times their numbers, fell back in some
disorder on the Eightieth Ohio, under Lieutenant-Colonel Bartilson.
The falling back of the Forty-eighth exposed the battery. As the
masses of the enemy advanced the battery opened with canister at
short range, mowing down the rebels by scores, until, with every
officer killed or wounded and nearly every man and horse killed or
disabled, it fell an easy prey. But this success was short lived.

"The hero Sullivan rallied a portion of the right wing, and, with a
bravery better characterized as audacity, drove the rebels back to
cover. Again they rallied and again the battery fell into their
hands; but with the wavering fortunes of this desperate fight the
battery again fell into our hands, and with three of its guns
spiked and the carriages cut and splintered with balls, it is again
ready to meet the foe."

At the close of the engagement the ground in front of the battery showed
heaps of dead bodies. Statistics show that the Confederates' loss in
this engagement amounted to eight hundred in killed and wounded. While
actual inspection of the field of carnage indicated that a large
proportion of the sla