Question of the Week: What’s your favorite artillery unit?

What is your favorite artillery unit that fought in the Civil War?



15 Responses to Question of the Week: What’s your favorite artillery unit?

  1. The Richmond Howitzers founded on November 9, 1859, by George Wythe Randolph, a grandson of Thomas Jefferson

  2. Captain Eli Lilly’s 18th Indiana Battery attached to John Wilder’s Mounted Infantry (“Lightning”) Brigade.

  3. Only one? Battery I, 1st US – Lt. Edmund Kirby. I’ll add what may have been the first true horse artillery unit, Battery A, 2nd US – Capt. Tidball, then Lt. John Calef (Birkhimer would disagree about the “first” …). There are a lot more.

  4. Battery A, 4th US Artillery, commanded by 1st Lt. Alonzo Cushing who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously by President Barack Obama on November 6, 2014

  5. Battery B, 1st Pennsylvania Artillery, as my ancestor, an infantryman in the Pennsylvania Reserves, mentions it often in his diary, referring to it as “the B Battery.”

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