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Muster In: Organized by the conversion of 1st Company K, 16th Virginia Infantry Regiment to artillery service on March 18, 1862 per Special Orders #62, A&IG’s Office.1
Muster Out: April 9, 18652
Commander(s):
Captain Richard G. Pegram
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army3
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- Unit Strength:
- Weapons: 4 x “guns” (June 17, 1864)4
Second Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army5
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Third Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army6
- Commander: Captain Richard G. Pegram (at least July 30, 1864)7
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons: 4 x “guns” (July 30, 1864)8
Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army9
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Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army10,11
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Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army12
- Commander: Captain Richard G. Pegram13
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army14,15
- Commander: Captain Richard G. Pegram (November & December 1864)16,17
- Unit Strength:
- Weapons: 4 x 12-lb. Napoleons (December 28, 1864)18
Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army19,20,21
Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Coit’s Artillery Battalion | Artillery | Fourth Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army24,25
Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles28:
- Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
- The Crater (July 30, 1864)
- Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
Bibliography:
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
- Confederate Casualties at the Crater: July 30, 1864
- NP: August 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, July 30
- NP: August 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 27-30, 1864
- NP: August 13, 1864 Cape Ann Light and Gloucester Telegraph: 23rd MA Observes the Crater Battle
- NP: August 2, 1896 The State (Columbia, SC): A Hero of the Crater
- NP: August 25, 1964 Petersburg Progress-Index: Siege Centennial, Part 26: The Second Battle Of Reams Station
- NP: December 16, 1895 The State (Columbia, SC): ELLIOTT’S BRIGADE. How It Held The Crater and Saved Petersburg.
- NP: January 31, 1898 The State (Columbia, SC): Elliott’s Brigade at the Crater
- NP: July 31, 1889 Evening Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA): The Siege of Petersburg
- NP: June 29, 1864 The Tioga County Agitator (Wellsboro, PA): The 45th PA Moves on Petersburg, June 12-20, 1864
- NP: March 5, 1899 The State (Columbia, SC): Elliott’s Brigade in the Crater Fight
- NP: May 3, 1905 Winnsboro (SC) News and Herald: Hagood’s Brigade at Globe Tavern, August 21, 1864
- NP: November 30, 1885 Atlanta Constitution: The Battle of the Crater
- NP: September 16, 1878 Petersburg Index-Appeal: A Terrible Story of the Crater
- NP: September 2, 1906 Charleston (SC) News and Courier: 64th Georgia at the Crater
- UPR: Report of Major General Bushrod R. Johnson, C. S. Army, commanding Johnson’s division, of operations June 16-18, 1864
Sources:
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 61-62 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 61-62 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 115 ↩
- NARA RG 109, Entry 66, Box 106: War Department Collection of Confederate Records, General Records of the Government of the CSA, Battle Reports 1862-1864: Bushrod Johnson’s Report on Petersburg Assaults June 15-18, 1864: Johnson refers to 4 “guns”, but does not give tube types. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 115 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 125 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 125 ↩
- “The War News.” Richmond Examiner. August 1, 1864, p. 1 col. 1 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 134 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 142 ↩
- 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. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 150 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 150 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 158 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 168 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 158 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 168 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 61-62 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 176 ↩
- 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. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 186 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 176 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 186 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 195 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 205 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 195 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 205 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 61-62 ↩