Hard to Hold Onto Guns

From 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., several guns changed hands. The 139th USCT continued to work its way through Capt. Blair's Alabama Battery and  captured two guns. It was given orders to withdraw and was unable to carry off the guns before they were re-taken by 67th Mississippi and returned to Capt. Blair. The Army of the Arkansas 6th Division moved into the woods to the west, leaving the southwest corner of South Younger Field uncontested and allowing Capt. Blair to send men to make a field repair of his No. 3 Gun that had been captured earlier and disabled. It will be out of the fight for the day, but can be taken off the field.

The 200th Indiana took a 12lb Armstrong Rifle from Capt. Hanks' Galveston Light Artillery, but was unable to pull it off the field. It was retaken and routed. The 227th Ohio had similar luck with a 12lb Napoleon from Capt. Stubbs' 2nd Confederate Light Artillery. Both Stubbs' and Hanks' Batteries belong to the 7th Division, Department of the Eastern Frontier and were firing canister into advancing Federals from their position in South Younger Woods.

While the Federals took several guns, but did not manage to hold on to any of them, the Department of the Eastern Frontier charged several guns south of Crane Junction as the guns were starting to withdraw. The 16th Kentucky managed to capture one 12lb Napoleon of Capt. Burke's 16th Independent Battery Michigan Light Artillery. They not only were able to carry it off the field, but turned it onto the flanks of a 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, AOA,  and it routed the 58th Missouri as the Brigade as falling back under pressure from Schuyler's Florida Brigade (3rd Division, DEF).

Although canister shells have been reduced per gun, batteries from both sides have done heavy damage to the enemy on July 3rd and July 4th.