Confederate Regiments & Batteries * Virginia
1861
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Fall | Organized in Henrico County under the command of Captain Johnson H. Sands. |
October-April | Assigned to the Artillery Battalion, Department of the Peninsula. |
1862
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April-May |
Siege of YorktownAssigned to the Griffith’s Brigade, McLaws’s Division, Magruder’s Command, Department of Northern Virginia. |
April 30 | The battery was reorganized under Captain Johnson H. Sands. |
May-June | Assigned to the Cabell’s Artillery Battalion, Magruder’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia. |
June | Assigned to the Toombs’s Brigade, Magruder’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia. |
June 24 | Equipped with one 10 pounder Parrott Rifle and three 6 pounder Smoothbores. |
July-October | Assigned to the Brown’s Regiment, Reserve Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. |
October 4 | Disbanded by Special Order 209, Headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia and the personnel distributed to other batteries. |