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1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "G"

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Country
  
United States

Branch
  
Artillery

Allegiance
  
Union

Active
  
October 1863 to January 26, 1865

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

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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 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

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

    1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "G" Wikipedia