Following the orders of Confederate General John Bell Hood to place his artillery battery forward of the Confederate lines, Captain Corput's "Cherokee Artillery" were hardly in position behind an earth parapet, before Union troops launched another attack.
The Confederate artillerymen were forced to abandon their guns, with supporting fire from rebel infantry keeping the assaulting Federals pinned down and the four 12-pdr Napoleon guns trapped in a no mans land with neither side able to take them.
The Federals sent in three different brigades in an attempt to capture the guns.
The painting shows the attack by the 70th Indiana, under the command of future US President, Colonel Benjamin Harrison, mounted and with sword in hand. The Indianans swarmed over parapet overwhelming the Confederate gunners in hand to hand fighting.
From the top of the slope, Tennessee regiments pour volleys of fire into the attackers forcing them back, over the parapet to find shelter.
Only after nightfall were the Union troops able to breech the parapet and drag away the four guns.

FROM: Osprey's, 'Atlanta 1864'

PRICE:PAINTING SOLD
SIZE: Image approx. H 33 cm x W 48 cm (H 13 x W 19 inches)
MEDIUM: Watercolour and gouache