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an enfilading and heavy artillery and musket fire from the Union line East Cemetery Hill, charged up the Hill and planted their colors on the artillery lunettes. Here the 8th Louisiana lost its colors to an Ohio Regiment, here men of the Brigade fought hand to hand for the Union cannon, but to no avail. Unsupported and assailed by Yankee reinforcements, they retired down the hill back to their position. On this same day the Louisiana Guard Artillery traveled the dusty Pennsylvania roads to Hunterstown to try to join Wade Hampton’s Cavalry Brigade. Here Instead they engaged the 2d U.S. Battery, then retired. Also on the Second Day, the Madison Light Artillery arrived with Longstreet’s Corps, and went into position on Warfield Ridge just south of the Louisiana Monument. When Longstreet’s Graycoats made their assault on Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, the Wheatfield, and the Peach Orchard, they the Madison Light Artillery assisted their advance with artillery fire from their four 24-pund howitzers. North of the Louisiana Monument, near the McMillan House, the Donaldsonville Artillery, sometime after 3 o’clock in the afternoon, maintained a continuous fire on Cemetery Hill to help Longstreet’s attack on the south. At dusk their cannon (1 10 pdr, 2 3”) began once again to roar,

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