Loss of 16 Union Guns

This is really a great view looking east from the top of a hill which drops off just in front.  The main Confederate breakthrough occurred on the right of image below, with the right flank moving up the field in front.  The Glenn-Kelly Road runs in front of the treeline in the distance (north is to the left), with the woods on the left where the 125th and 64th Ohio (blue dots) fired into the flank of the advancing Confederates, with General Hood being wounded at the woods just to the left side of the granite marker in the foreground (red dot).  There is a small shoulder parking for this site at the yellow dot. There are no permanent trails from the parking area to this spot, so its ease of access depends on how recently they've mowed the field (it can be waist high) and how recently it has rained (a small creek cuts across the field).  You can drive on another hundred or so yards to the north and park in the actual parking spaces for the South Carolina monument, hike up to the monument, turn left on the gravel road and follow it around to the right to the top of the hill and this spot.
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Sign at the parking area with the 64th Ohio monument behind.  Nine guns? The four Union tablets below list a total of 16 while the Confederate tablet for Gregg's Brigade back in the woods just off  Brotherton Road lists 15.

The markers below are in order left to right as they face out onto the field, with the rightmost set being visible in the panoramic image above.  The boys in blue got thrashed but good.

7th Battery, Indiana Light
Lost 1 of 6 guns
Battery B 26th PA Light
Lost 4 of 6 guns
3rd Battery Wisc. Light
Lost 5 of 6 guns
8th Battery, Indiana Light
Lost 6 of 6 guns