1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "C"

Battery C, 1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The battalion was organized in Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville, Tennessee from June 13, 1863 through October 16, 1863 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Clay Crawford. Battery C mustered in for three years service at Knoxville on November 1, 1863 under the command of Captain Vincent Meyers.

Battery C was attached to Defenses of Memphis, Fort Pickering, XVI Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to March 1864. Post and District of Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to March 1865. Artillery, 3rd Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, to July 1865.

Battery C, 1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery mustered out of service at Nashville on August 1, 1865.

Detailed service

Garrison duty at Fort Pickering, Defenses of Memphis, Tennessee, until March 1864, and garrison artillery at Nashville, Tennessee, until March 1865. Battle of Nashville December 15–16, 1864. Ordered to Johnsonville March 22, 1865, and duty there until July.

Commanders

• Captain Vincent Meyers
• Lieutenant Henry C. Kelly - promoted to captain, Battery G
• Lieutenant Joseph Grigsby - commanded at the battle of Nashville

See also

• List of Tennessee Civil War units
• Tennessee in the Civil War

References

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.

Attribution

• This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

External links

• Brief unit history, including officers' names, regimental strengths, etc.