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Madison's Company B, Second Illinois Artillery, served at the landing. Captain Silversparre's four-gun battery of twenty-pound Parrotts, though assigned to McClernand, remained at the landing from lack of horses and equipage to pull them out to camp.
As the National lines were drifting back toward the landing, Colonel Webster, of General Grant's staff, gathered all the artillery within reach Major Cavender's six twenty-pounders, Silversparre's twenty-pound Parrotts, and some light batteries on a commanding position from a quarter to half a mile from the landing. Immediately above the landing a wide and deep ravine opens to the river.
Two of Silversparre's twenty-pounder Parrott guns were moved silently through the forest to a point behind a hill, from the top of which could be seen the house and ground to be contested. The guns were unlimbered, loaded, and moved by hand to the crest. A quick rapid fire demolished the house.
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