Virginia: Halifax Light Artillery Battery
(aka Virginia Yorktown Artillery Battery)
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Unit History
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Organized by the conversion of 1st Company G, 14th Infantry Regiment, to artillery service on May 1, 1862.
Served as Company G (subsequently Company C), 1st Artillery Regiment, and later as Company C, 1st Artillery Battalion, until January 18, 1865.
Then served independently.
Armed with two 12-lb. Napoleans on June 24, 1862.
There was some consideration in October 1862 of either returning the company to infantry service or relieving the officers and distributing the enlisted men to the other batteries of the 1st Artillery Regiment.
Neither appears to have been carried out.
Armed with four 12-lb. Napoleans on December 28, 1864.
Surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
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Field and Staff
- Commander: Edward Rush Young (Captain)
Assignments
- April-May 1862: McLaws' Brigade, McLaws' Division, Magruder's Command, Department of Northern Virginia
- May-June 1862: McLaws' Brigade, Magruder's Division, Army of Northern Virginia
- June 1862: Toombs' Brigade, McLaws' Division, Army of Northern Virginia
- July-October 1862: Brown's Battalion, Reserve Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia
- June-July 1863: Moseley's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina
- July-September 1863: Moseley's Battalion, Artillery, Ransom's Division, Department of Richmond
- September 1863-June 1864: Moseley's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina
- June-October 1864: Moseley's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- October 1864-April 1865: Moseley's-Caskie's-Blount's Battalion, Artillery, 4th Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
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