Position Marker #3

11th Iowa Infantry

West side of Sherman Road at McClernand Road

“This regiment was engaged here, with the 11th and 20th Illinois, about noon April 6, 1862, in the capture of Cobb’s Kentucky battery of six guns. The regiment advanced 200 yards capturing a standard from the enemy and then fell back, fighting, to Jones Field.”

Looking toward Woolf Field
Looking west northwest down path to 40th Illinois Monument and Confederal Burial Trench #2.
Cobb's Battery, Marker #450