(Jackson) Arkansas Light Artillery Battery

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Regimental History and Service Record

  • Also referred to as the (McCown) Arkansas Artillery Battery
  • 1861 - Organized
  • June 15, 1861 - Mustered into State Service at Jacksonport
  • July 25, 1861 - Mustered into Confederate Service
  • April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
    • Armed with two 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 3-inch Rifles
  • April-June 1862 - Corinth Campaign
  • Spring 1862 - Possibly consolidated with the (Helena) Arkansas Artillery Battery
  • 1862 - Converted to Heavy Artillery service
  • November 28, 1863 - Armed with four 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 3-inch Rifles
  • January 5, 1864 - Armed with four 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 6-lb. Rifles
  • February-March 1864 - Meridian Campaign
  • March 5, 1864 - Yazoo City
  • May 1864 - Armed with four 6-lb. Smoothbores
  • July 14, 1864 - Tupelo
  • August 1864 - A.J. Smith's 2nd Mississippi Invasion
  • October 16-November 10, 1864 - Forrest's West Tennessee Raid
  • March 17-April 12, 1865 - Mobile
  • May 26, 1865 - Surrendered by General E. Kirby Smith commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department

DESIGNATIONS

  • Department #2 / Upper District of Arkansas (August-September 1861)
  • Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Hardee's Division / Artillery (October 1861-March 1862)
  • Department #2 / Army of Mississippi / 3rd Corps / Cleburne's Brigade (March-May 1862)
  • Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 1st Military District (October 1862-September 1863)
  • Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Ruggles' Command (September 1863-January 1864)
  • Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Ruggles' Command (January-February 1864)
  • Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Forrest's Cavalry Corps / Chalmers' Division / Artillery (February-May 1864)
  • Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Forrest's Cavalry Corps / Artillery (May-November 1864)
  • Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Artillery (November-December 1864)
  • Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Artillery Reserves, etc. / Defenses of Mobile / Left Wing / Hoxton's Artillery Battalion (March-April 1865)
  • Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Fuller's Regiment / Hoxton's Artillery Battalion (April-May 1865)

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