Virginia: Petersburg Artillery Battery
(Nicknames: Branch Field Artillery and Lee's Life Guard)
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Unit History
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Organized by the conversion of 1st Company K, 16th Infantry Regiment, to artillery service on March 18, 1862, per S.O. #62, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office.
Armed with three 12-lb. Howitzers, one 10-lb. Parrott, and two 3-inch Rifles in August and September 1862.
Armed with four 12-lb. Napoleons on December 28, 1864.
Surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
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Field and Staff
- Commander: James Read Branch (Captain)
- Captain: Richard Gregory Pegram
Assignments
- June-July 1862: Artillery Battalion, Holmes' Division, Army of Northern Virginia
- July 1862: Artillery Battalion, Department of North Carolina
- September 1862-January 1863: Ransom's Brigade, Walker's-Ransom's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- February 1863: Ransom's Brigade, French's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- February-March 1863: Ransom's Brigade, District of Cape Fear, D.H. Hill's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- March-April 1863: Unattached, District of Cape Fear, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- April-May 1863: Unattached, District of Cape Fear, Department of North Carolina
- May-June 1863: Ransom's Brigade, 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 North Carolina
- September 1863-May 1864: Branch's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina
- 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-October 1864: Branch's-Coit's Battalion, Artillery, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- October 1864-April 1865: Branch's-Coit's Battalion, Artillery, 4th Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
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