2nd Alabama Light Artillery Battalion / Battery A
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- "McRae Light Artillery"
- October 17, 1861 - Organized at ?
- October 17, 1861 - Mustered in Confederate Service
- Armed with four 6 lb. Smoothbores between November 28, 1863 and January 5, 1864
- Armed with four 12 lb. Napoleons between May 1, 1864 and February 21, 1865
- July 1863 - Siege of Jackson
- February-March 1864 -
The Meridian Campaign
- May 1-September 8, 1864 -
The Atlanta Campaign
- May 25-June 4, 1864 - New Hope Church
- May 4, 1865 - Surrendered at Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama by Lieutenant Richard Taylor (commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana)
DESIGNATIONS
- Department of Alabama and West Florida / District of Alabama (November 1861-January 1862)
- Department of Alabama and West Florida / Army of Mobile (January-June 1862)
- Department #2 / District of the Gulf / Army of Mobile (July-November 1862)
- Department of the Gulf / Western Division / Slaughter's Brigade (April-May 1863)
- Department of the West / Loring's Division / Featherston's Brigade (May-July 1863)
- Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Featherston's Brigade (July 1863-January 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Featherston's Brigade (January-February 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Artillery Battalion (January-February 1864)
- Army of Mississippi / Loring's Division / Artillery Battalion (May 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Artillery Battalion (January-February 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of Central and North Alabama / Armistead's Cavalry Brigade (August 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of Central and North Alabama / Artillery
(August-October 1864)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Semple's Artillery Battalion (October 1864-February 1865)
- Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of Central Alabama / Artillery (February-May 1865)
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: Stephen Charpentier (Captain)
- Captain: John M. Jenks
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Regiment Statistical Information
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Legacy
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Notes
Sources
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Alabama. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 6-7, 18)