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Wilmington North Carolina Artillery (Miller’s NC Battery)

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Note: This unit was also known as Company E of the 1st North Carolina Artillery.

Muster In: Mustered into State service on August 23, 1861.  Mustered into Confederate service on August 30, 1861.1
Muster Out: April 9, 18652

Commander(s):
Captain John O. Miller
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Commander 2
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Commander 3
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Moseley’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army3

  • Commander:
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons: 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts (June 1864-December 28, 1864)4
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached and stationed at Fort Clifton.5

Second Offensive Order of Battle: Moseley’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army6

  • Commander:
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons: 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts (June 1864-December 28, 1864)7
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached and stationed at Fort Clifton.8

Third Offensive Order of Battle: Moseley’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army9

  • Commander:
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons: 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts (June 1864-December 28, 1864)10
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached and stationed at Fort Clifton. 11

Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Moseley’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army12

  • Commander:
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons: 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts (June 1864-December 28, 1864)13
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached and stationed at Fort Clifton. 14

Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Moseley’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army15,16

  • Commander:
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons: 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts (June 1864-December 28, 1864)17
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached and stationed at Fort Clifton.18,19

Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Moseley’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army20

  • Commander: Captain John O. Miller21
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons: 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts (June 1864-December 28, 1864)22
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached and stationed at Fort Clifton.23

Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: Moseley’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army24,25

  • Commander: Captain John O. Miller (November & December 1864)26,27
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons: 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts (June 1864-December 28, 1864)28
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached (under which commander?) and stationed at Fort Clifton. (November & December 1864)29,30

Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Blount’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army31,32,33

  • Commander: None listed. (January & February 1865)34,35
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons:
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached (under which commander?) and stationed at Fort Clifton.36,37

Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Blount’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army38,39

  • Commander: None listed (March & April 1-2, 1865)40,41
  • Unit Strength:
  • Weapons:
  • Note: A section of this battery was detached (under which commander?) and stationed at Fort Clifton.42,43

Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles44:

  • Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
  • Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)

Bibliography:

    Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:

    Sources:

    1. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11 ↩
    2. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11 ↩
    3. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 115 ↩
    4. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11: Sifakis lists this battery as having 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts from June 1864 to December 28, 1864.  The unit had this setup in both June, 1864 and on December 28, 1864.  What is unclear is if Sifakis can correctly assume this setup never changed at any point in between those dates and exactly when in June the unit was so equipped.  More research is needed. ↩
    5. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 115: I noted this but cannot find where I saw this.  For now, Sibley’s book has the more generic “1st NC Arty (detachment)” listed, but doesn’t go into more detail.  More research is needed to (re)find how I know it was a detachment of Miller’s battery specifically. ↩
    6. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 115 ↩
    7. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11: Sifakis lists this battery as having 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts from June 1864 to December 28, 1864.  The unit had this setup in both June, 1864 and on December 28, 1864.  What is unclear is if Sifakis can correctly assume this setup never changed at any point in between those dates and exactly when in June the unit was so equipped.  More research is needed. ↩
    8. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 115: I noted this but cannot find where I saw this.  For now, Sibley’s book has the more generic “1st NC Arty (detachment)” listed, but doesn’t go into more detail.  More research is needed to (re)find how I know it was a detachment of Miller’s battery specifically. ↩
    9. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 125 ↩
    10. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11: Sifakis lists this battery as having 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts from June 1864 to December 28, 1864.  The unit had this setup in both June, 1864 and on December 28, 1864.  What is unclear is if Sifakis can correctly assume this setup never changed at any point in between those dates and exactly when in June the unit was so equipped.  More research is needed. ↩
    11. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 125: “I noted this but cannot find where I saw this.  For now, Sibley’s book has the more generic “1st NC Arty (detachment)” listed, but doesn’t go into more detail.  More research is needed to (re)find how I know it was a detachment of Miller’s battery specifically.” ↩
    12. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 134 ↩
    13. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11: Sifakis lists this battery as having 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts from June 1864 to December 28, 1864.  The unit had this setup in both June, 1864 and on December 28, 1864.  What is unclear is if Sifakis can correctly assume this setup never changed at any point in between those dates and exactly when in June the unit was so equipped.  More research is needed. ↩
    14. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 134: “I noted this but cannot find where I saw this.  For now, Sibley’s book has the more generic “1st NC Arty (detachment)” listed, but doesn’t go into more detail.  More research is needed to (re)find how I know it was a detachment of Miller’s battery specifically.” ↩
    15. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 142 ↩
    16. Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship.  The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1314: Sommers does not list this battery with Moseley’s Artillery Battalion, but in a note for the unit he mentions that “Miller’s NC Artillery”, which is the Wilmington NC Artillery, was sent to the north side of the James on September 29, 1864 and operated with the First Corps Artillery. ↩
    17. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11: Sifakis lists this battery as having 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts from June 1864 to December 28, 1864.  The unit had this setup in both June, 1864 and on December 28, 1864.  What is unclear is if Sifakis can correctly assume this setup never changed at any point in between those dates and exactly when in June the unit was so equipped.  More research is needed. ↩
    18. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 142 ↩
    19. Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship.  The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1313. ↩
    20. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 150 ↩
    21. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 150 ↩
    22. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11: Sifakis lists this battery as having 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts from June 1864 to December 28, 1864.  The unit had this setup in both June, 1864 and on December 28, 1864.  What is unclear is if Sifakis can correctly assume this setup never changed at any point in between those dates and exactly when in June the unit was so equipped.  More research is needed. ↩
    23. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 151 ↩
    24. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 158 ↩
    25. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 167 ↩
    26. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 158 ↩
    27. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 167 ↩
    28. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11: Sifakis lists this battery as having 4 x 10-lb. Parrotts from June 1864 to December 28, 1864.  The unit had this setup in both June, 1864 and on December 28, 1864.  What is unclear is if Sifakis can correctly assume this setup never changed at any point in between those dates and exactly when in June the unit was so equipped.  More research is needed. ↩
    29. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 160 ↩
    30. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 168 ↩
    31. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 176 ↩
    32. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1177: “Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General R. E. Lee, January 31, 1865”; This list contains many commanders who were not there.  They were the “official” commanders but may have been gone on leave.  I have used none of the leaders from this list as a result. ↩
    33. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 186 ↩
    34. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 176 ↩
    35. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 186 ↩
    36. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 177 ↩
    37. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 189 ↩
    38. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 195 ↩
    39. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 205 ↩
    40. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 195 ↩
    41. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 205 ↩
    42. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 198 ↩
    43. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 207 ↩
    44. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: North Carolina by Stewart Sifakis, p. 11 ↩

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