Mississippi: Brookhaven Light Artillery Battery
(aka Captain Hoskins' Battery)
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Unit History
Battery was raised and organized on May 11, 1861 at Lawrence (now Lincoln) County.
Battery
enlisted at Brookhaven on July 21, 1861.
It was armed with four guns on May 14, 1863.
It was armed with two 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 3" Rifles on November 28, 1863.
It was armed with two 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 12-lb. Howitzers on January 5, 1864.
It was armed with two 3" Rifles, one 10-lb. Parrott, and one 6-lb. Smoothbore on May 1, 1864.
It was armed with two 10-lb. Parrotts and two 12-lb. Napoleans on May 19, 1864.
Apparently disbanded in January 1865
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Battery was enlisted at Brookhaven 21 July, 1861. Captain -- James A. Hoskins. First Lieutenant -- John C. Hardy. Junior First Lieutenant -- Benjamin T. Atkins. Second Lieutenant -- Daniel H. Mitchell. Sergeant Major -- A. E. Maxwell. Quartermaster Sergeant -- George W. Hoskins. Sergeants -- Charles H. Williams, C. A. Williams, A. D. McClendon, G. A. Duke. Total enrolled, 104.
Appears in list of troops at Port Hudson, under Gem W. N. R. Beall, August 31, 1862, aggregate present 65; at Ponchatoula, return of October 22, under Beall's command; attached to Gregg's Brigade, return of January, 1863, Port Hudson. On duty during Admiral Parragut's attempt to run the batteries March 14. Brigade ordered to Jackson, May 1, 1863.
On May 14, with the forces under Gen. John Gregg, which held in check the advance of Sherman's and McPherson's Corps to gain time for the evacuation of Jackson. Hoskin's Battery and Colquitt's Georgia Brigade retarded the advance of Sherman on the Clinton road. "Owing to the well-directed fire from Captain Hoskins' Battery and the fire of Colquitt's skirmishors, with Gregg's Brigade in view, the advance of the enemy was very cautious and slow," was General Gregg's report. The battery had one man wounded in this action, the battle of Jackson.
In June, attached to Gen. John Adorns' Brigade, Walker's Division. on the Yazoo. June 4, at Mechanicsburg, in action against a Federal expedition, covering Adams' retreat. With the land forces on the Yazoo at the time of the expedition to Yazoo City by Admiral Porter July, 1863, when the gunboat Baron DeKalb was blown up by one of Capt, I. N. Brown's torpedoes.
On January 1864, Captain Hoskins commanding, 125 men, three rifle, guns (one 3-inch) and one smoothbore, one of the strongest batteries in Polk's Army of the Mississippi. Gen. S. G. French's Division, headquarters Demopolis, March, 1864. In Atlanta campaign, Capt. James A Hoskins commanding, Maj. George S. Storrs' Battalion, French 's Divisior Lt. Gen. Polk's Army of Mississippi. Guns, two 12-lb. Napoleons and two 10lb. Parrotts. Three of the guns were engaged between May 13-June 20. Lost two men in the battle of Resaca, May 17.
At New Hope Church, Lieutenant Stewart, a gallant officer, had his leg taken away by a cannon shot while standing by his gun. The battery was praised by General French for good conduct at Kenesaw Mountain June 27. The Parrott guns were used on the west side of the mountain.
On July 28, after the battle of Ezra Church, French "continued an enfilading fire on the enemy all night from Hoskins' Battery." The battery occupied a redan to the left of the Turner's Ferry road. westward Atlanta [during the Siege of Atlanta].
Field and Staff
- Commander: James A. Hoskins (Captain)
Assignments
- April-June 1862: Port Hudson, Department #1
- June-July 1862: Port Hudson, Department of Southern Mississippi and East Louisiana
- July-October 1862: 1st Sub-district, Department of the Mississippi, Department #2
- October 1862: Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
- October 1862: 3rd Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
- December 1862-May 1863: Gregg's Brigade, 3rd Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
- May 1863: Gist's Brigade, Department of the West
- June 1863: Adams' Brigade, Walker's Division, Department of the West
- January 1864: Ector's Brigade, French's Division, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
- February 1864: Ector's Brigade, French's Division, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana
- March-May 1864: Artillery, French's Division, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana
- May-July 1864: Storr's Artillery Battalion, French's Division, Army of Mississippi
- July 1864: Storr's Battalion, Artillery, Army of Mississippi
- July 1864-January 1865: Storr's Battalion, Artillery, 3rd Corps, Army of Tennessee
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