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Navy Circle
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U.S.
Battery Benton
Acting Master J. Frank Reed
A detachment of Battery E. 1st Missouri Light Artillery, under Lieut.
Joseph B. Atwater and a detail of enlisted men of the 34th Iowa
Infantry, all under acting master J. frank Reed of the gunboat "Benton",
served two 42-pounders rifled guns in this position. Battery Benton,
from the morning of July 1, to the end of the siege, July 4,1863. A
shell from the Confederate mortar in south fort exploded in the battery,
July 1, killing 2 and badly wounding 4 enlisted men of the 34th Iowa
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Vicksburg National Military
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