1st Kentucky Artillery Battery
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- Also referred to as:
- (Lyon's) Kentucky Artillery Battery
- (Cobb's) Kentucky Artillery Battery
- September 20, 1861 - Organized by conversion of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry / (I) Company F at Bowling Green, Kentucky
- April 6-7, 1862 - Shiloh
- Armed with four 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 12-lb. Howitzers
- May 1862 - (Byrne's) Kentucky and Mississippi Artillery Battery merged into this unit at Corinth, Mississippi
- May 8-July 27, 1862 - Vicksburg Bombardments
- August 5, 1862 - Baton Rouge
- December 7, 1862 - Hartsville
- November 1862 - (Graves') Kentucky and Mississippi Artillery Battery merged into this unit at Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- December 31, 1862-January 3, 1863 - Murfreesboro
- July 1863-April 1, 1864 - Armed with four 12-lb. Napoleons
- July 1863 - Siege of Jackson
- September 19-20, 1863 - Chickamauga
- September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
- November 23-25, 1863 - Chattanooga
- January 1864 - 3 other batteries merged into this battery:
- May-September 1864 - Atlanta Campaign
- July-September 1864 - Siege of Atlanta
- March 17-April 12, 1865 - Mobile
- May 4, 1865 - Surrendered by Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana at Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama
DESIGNATIONS
- September-October 1861 - Department #2 / Central Geographical Division of Kentucky
- October 1861-January 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Buckner's Division / Artillery
- January-February 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Bowen's Brigade
- February-March 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Reserve / Breckinridge's Brigade
- March-April 1862 - Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / Reserve Corps / Kentucky Brigade
- June-July 1862 - Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / Reserve Corps / Preston's Brigade
- July-August 1862 - Department #2 / Breckinridge's Command / Clark's Division / T.B. Smith's Brigade
- October-November 1862 - Department of Tennessee / Army of Middle Tennessee / Kentucky Brigade
- November-December 1862 - Army of Tennessee / 1st Corps / Breckinridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade
- December 1862-May 1863 - Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Breckinridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade
- May-July 1863 - Department of the West / Breckinridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade
- July 1863 - Department of the West / Breckinridge's Division / Artillery Battalion
- July-August 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Breckinridge's Division / Artillery Battalion
- August 1863-February 1864 - Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Breckinridge's Division / Artillery Battalion
- February-April 1864 - Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Artillery / Cobb's Battalion
- April-September 1864 - Army of Tennessee / 1st Corps / Artillery / Cobb's Battalion
- March-April 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Artillery Reserves, etc. / Burnet's Command
- April-May 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Burnet's Command
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: Hylan B. Lyon (Captain)
- Robert Cobb (Captain)
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Notes
Sources
- Davis, William C., The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Page 7)
- 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 5-6, 7, 9, 34)