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1st Battalion Tennessee Light Artillery, Battery "K"

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Country
  
United States

Branch
  
Artillery

Allegiance
  
Union

Active
  
October 1863 to July 1865

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

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.

The only record for Battery K notes that it was ordered from Nashville to Knoxville on March 22, 1865. It was on garrison duty there until July 1865 when the battery was mustered out of the service.

References

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