(Issaquena) Kentucky and Mississippi Artillery Battery

Regimental History and Service Record

• Also referred to as the:
  • (Graves') Kentucky Artillery Battery
  • (Ingram's) Kentucky Artillery Battery
  • (Spencer's) Kentucky Artillery Battery

• November 8, 1861 - Organized as a Mississippi and Kentucky unit
• Early 1862 - 4th Kentucky Infantry / Company B attached to this battery
• November 11, 1862 - Armed with two 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 12-lb. Howitzers
• November 1862 - Merged into 1st Kentucky Artillery Battery at Murfreesboro, Mississippi

DESIGNATIONS

• October 1861 - Department #2 / 1st Geographical Division / Reserve
• October-November 1862 - Department #2 / Army of Middle Tennessee / Kentucky Brigade
• November 1862 - Army of Tennessee / 1st Corps / Breckenridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade

Regimental Roster

• First Commander: Selden Spencer (Captain)
• Rice E. Graves (Captain)
• J. Ingram (Captain)

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Regiment Statistical Information

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Legacy

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Sources

• Davis, William C., The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home
• Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units, and the Indian Units. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 7, 8, 35)
• Thompson, Edward Porter, History of the First Kentucky Brigade