American Civil War Battlefields
East Crest Drive
Missionary Ridge
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Mebane’s Tennessee Battery was part of John. C.
Breckinridge’s Division, Daniel H. Hill’s Corps of the Army of Tennessee. Because
of their location away from most of the action during the Battle of
Chickamauga, Sept. 18-20, 1863, Captain John Mebane’s battery of four guns fired
only 75 rounds and suffered just two casualties. His four Napoleon 12 pounders were eventually
moved to this position atop Missionary Ridge.
On Nov. 25, 1863, they were engaged in the Battle of Missionary Ridge,
where his guns could not be sufficiently depressed to command the slope of the
hill. Even so, the battery was able to
fire off 543 rounds during the battle, though doing little damage to the Union troops
coming up the steep hill toward them.
The battery suffered 3 casualties, 2 wounded and 1 missing. They were however, successfully able to
retire with all four guns and proceeded to Dalton, Georgia where they encamped
until William T. Sherman began his Atlanta Campaign. Capt. Mebane was killed on June 18th,
1864, while participating in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
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