Battery Dantzler

Battery Dantzler was a Confederate artillery battery located on the banks of the James River in Chester, Virginia. Po Union síly obešly Drewry's Bluff obranu vysekáním kanálu korytem řeky na Dutch Gap in 1864, Konfederace postavila novou baterii poblíž Bermudy Sto. Baterie byla pojmenována podle plukovníka Olin Miller Dantzler of the 22nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment, a ukotvila severní konec Howlett Line of earthworks. Pevnost osadila dvě 20liberní děla Parrott, dvě sedmipalcové pušky Brooke, dvě osmipalcové kulomety Columbiad s hladkou hlavní a dva desetipalcové pobřežní minomety. Dne 15. června jednotky Unie obsadily baterii po P.G.T. Beauregard's forces withdrawn from Bermuda Hundred to defend Petersburg against the first Federal threats, a Federals dismounted and buried the cannons until Confederates retook the position the following day and remounted their guns in time for the Reach">Battle of Trent's Reach. The battery dueled daily with US Navy gunboats and Union Army land batteries until 2 April 1865, when it was abandoned after the Petersburg to the Union.

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