Mississippi: Confederate Guards Artillery Battery
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Unit History
Organized in early 1862.
It was armed with three 20-lb. Parrotts and two 12-lb. Smoothbores on December 26, 1864.
Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865.
Capt. Grisham’s battery was ordered from Mississippi to Wilmington in October, 1861. The battery was included in the brigade of Gen. Samuel G. French, late Chief of Ordnance of Mississippi, who was assigned to command of the district of the Pamlico in North Carolina, March 17, 1862. The returns show the battery under the command of Captain Bradford, in Branch's artillery battalion, Department of North Carolina, Gen. D. H. Hill, June 30, 1863; in the Department of Richmond, under Gen. Elzey, on July 31, 1863, and assigned to Coit's battalion in the Richmond defenses.
Coit's battalion served in North Carolina in the early spring of 1864, aided in repelling the attack of Butler at Swift creek and Drewry's Bluff, participated in the defense of Petersburg by Hoke and Bushrod Johnson, and "has also since been engaged constantly," reported the chief of artillery on February 28, 1865.
Bradford's three guns, 20lb. Parrotts, were on the morning of June 18 placed in position on the north side of the Appomattox to sweep with an enfilade fire the left of Gen. Beauregard's new line, which they had occasion to effectively defend the same day.
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next day, they were reinforced with other batteries from Lee's army, including the Madison Light Artillery in Poague's battalion, while Humphreys' brigade took position in the trenches. The famous mine explosion was under the salient held by Pegram's battery of Coit's battalion. The battery also had two 12lb. guns. Lt. A. J. Cochran's section was with Garnett's brigade in October, 1864, and later on the Weldon Railroad.
Field and Staff
- Commander: John C. Grisham (Captain)
- Captain: William D. Bradford
Assignments
- March-April 1862: French's Brigade, District of the Pamlico, Department of North Carolina
- April 1862: Ransom's Brigade, Department of North Carolina
- August-December 1862: Ransom's Brigade, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- February-March 1863: Artillery, French's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- March 1863: Artillery, Pickett's Division, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- April-May 1863: Artillery, Department of Southern Virginia
- May 1863: Artillery, French's Command, Department of North Carolina
- May-June 1863: Artillery, Department of North Carolina
- June-July 1863: Branch's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina
- July-September 1863: Branch's Artillery Battalion, Ransom's Division, Department of Richmond
- May-June 1864: Coit's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- June 1864-??: Artillery Battalion, Johnson's Division, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- June 1864: 1st Military District, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia [section]
- June-October 1864: Branch's-Coit's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- October 1864-April 1865: Coit's Battalion, Artillery, 4th Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
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