Unit

Confederate Brigade

Ewell's Division Artillery

Commanding Officer:
Maj. A. R. Courtney

Members of Interest:
ASurg William S. Parran, KIA 9/17

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #314: Jackson's Command - 15 Sep, 4 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
   Tablet #326: Ewell's Division, Jackson's Command - 15 Sep, 6 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM

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

Units which make up this Brigade:
  1st Maryland Battery
  Chesapeake (MD) Artillery
  Courtney (VA) Artillery
  Johnson's Bedford (VA) Artillery
  Staunton (VA) Artillery (Balthis' Battery)

In the Antietam Campaign:
"The Charlottesville Artillery, left at Richmond in August, did not rejoin the Army till after the battle of Sharpsburg. John R. Johnsonís [Bedford, Virginia] and DíAquinís [Louisiana Guard - to Hays' Brigade] batteries were the only ones present with this division at Sharpsburg, the others having been left at Harperís Ferry and Shepherdstown".1

Notes

1 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, Vol. 19/Part 1 (Ser #27), pg. 807 [AotW citation 232]

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