12th Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion / Battery B

Regimental History and Service Record

May 1862 - Organized
April-May 1862 - Siege of Yorktown
June 25-July 1, 1862 - Seven Days' Battles [In Reserve]
September 7, 1862 - Port Hudson vs. U.S.S. Essex
March 14, 1863 - Port Hudson Bombardment
May-July 1863 - Siege of Port Hudson
- July 8, 1863 - Surrendered at Port Hudson, Louisiana
  - Paroled in July 1863
August 5-23, 1864 - Mobile Bay
March 17-April 12, 1865 - Mobile
May 4, 1865 - Surrendered by Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama by Lieutenant Richard Taylor (commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana)

DESIGNATIONS

May 1862 - Department of Northern Virginia / D.H. Hill's Division / Rains' Brigade
May-August 1862 - Army of Northern Virginia / Reserve Artillery
September-October 1862 - Department #2 / District of the Mississippi / 1st Sub-District
October 1862 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
October 1862-July 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 3rd Military District / Heavy Artillery
January-April 1864 - Department of the Gulf / Higgins' Heavy Artillery Brigade
April 1864-January 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Higgins'/Fuller's Heavy Artillery Brigade
March-April 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Artillery Reserves, etc. / Defenses of Mobile / Left Wing / Clinch's Artillery Battalion
April-May 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Fuller's Artillery Brigade / Clinch's Battalion

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Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Louisiana. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 14-15)