Unit

Confederate Battery

Danville (VA) Artillery

"Wooding's Battery"

Commanding Officer:
Capt. George W. Wooding

Statistics for Maryland Campaign
  Initial Strength: 64
  Killed in Action (KIA): 1
  Wounded (WIA): 13
  Missing in Action (MIA): 1
  Losses, % of Initial Strength: 23.4%

Arms:
  1   10-pdr. Parrott
  1   3-in. Ordnance Rifle

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #314: Jackson's Command - 15 Sep, 4 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
   Tablet #381: Jackson's Division, Jackson's Command - 16 Sep, 4 PM to 16 Sep, 7 PM
   Tablet #315: Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
   Tablet #382: Jackson's Division, Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
   Tablet #382, cont: Jackson's Division, Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

This Battery's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Jackson's Command
  Division - Jackson's Division
  Brigade - Jackson's Division Artillery

History of the Unit:
The Danville Artillery entered Confederate service April 22, 1861 under the command of Capt Lindsay M Shumaker (later Battalion leader). When they were reorganized on April 21, 1862, Captain George W. Wooding was elected Captain.1

The remainder of the War:
Men and equipment from the disbanded Eighth Star New Market Artillery were added to the Battery in the ANV Artillery reorganization of October 1862.1

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Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?	Details*
--	Capt	Wooding, George Washington

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Notes

1 Moore, Robert H. II, Danville, Eight[h] Star, New Market, and Dixie Artillery, Appomattox: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989 [AotW citation 236]

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