3rd Missouri Artillery Battery

Regimental History and Service Record

• Also referred to as:
  • The St. Louis Artillery Battery/Battalion
  • (Dawson's) Artillery Battery
  • (MacDonald's) Artillery Battery

• Early 1862 - Organized
• March 7-8, 1862 - Pea Ridge
• April-June 1862 - Corinth Campaign
• September 19, 1862 - Iuka
• October 3-4, 1862 - Corinth
• April 29, 1863 - Grand Gulf
• May-July 1863 - The Vicksburg Campaign
  • May 16, 1863 - Champion's Hill
  • May 17, 1863 - Big Black River Bridge
  • May-July 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg
  • July 4, 1863 - Surrendered at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
  • Paroled there later that month
  • September 12, 1863 - Declared exchanged
• Late 1863/Early 1864-May 4, 1865 - Field consolidation as the 3rd Missouri Battery with the (Jackson) Missouri Artillery Battery
• May 19, 1864-February 21, 1865 - Consolidated battery armed with four 20-lb. Parrotts
• 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

• March-April 1862 - Department #2 / Trans-Mississippi District / Price's Division / Hébert's Brigade
• April-July 1862 - Department #2 / Army of the West / Price's/Little's Division / Hébert's Brigade
• September-October 1862 - Department #2 / Army of West Tennessee / Price's Corps / Little's/Hébert's/Green's Division / Hébert's Brigade
• October 1862 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of West Tennessee / Price's Corps / Bowen's Division / Hébert's Brigade
• October-December 1862 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of West Tennessee / Price's Corps / Bowen's Division / Green's Brigade
• December 1862-January 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Army of North Mississippi / Price's Corps / Bowen's Division / Green's Brigade
• January 1863 - Army of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Price's Division / Green's Brigade
• April 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Forney's/Bowen's Division / Green's Brigade
• April-July 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Bowen's Division / Green's Brigade
• December 1863-January 1864 - Department of the Gulf / Cantey's Brigade
• April-May 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Artillery Battalion / Truehart's Brigade
• April-May 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Fuller's/Higgins' Artillery Brigade
• August 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Higgins' Brigade / Truehart's Artillery Battalion
• September-October 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Liddell's Brigade
• October-November 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Semple's Artillery Battalion
• November 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Burnet's Command
• December 1864-February 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Semple's Artillery 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: Emmett MacDonald (Captain)
• William E. Dawson (Captain)

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Legacy

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Sources

• 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 75-77, 79, 85, 86)