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1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "G"

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1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "G"
ActiveOctober 1863 to January 26, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchArtillery

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

Service

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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 G was attached to Garrison Artillery, Nashville, Tennessee. Assigned to "Governor's Guard" in August 1864, under the overall command of Brig. Gen. Alvan Cullem Gillem. Reported at Bull's Gap, Tennessee, August 3, 1864.

Battery G, 1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery presumably ceased to exist after January 26, 1865, when the battery's men were consolidated with Battery E, 1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery.

Commanders

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  • Captain Henry C. Kelly
  • Lieutenant Jeremiah H. Crane

See also

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References

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