It appears in the Official Records (vol. XXII) as a two-gun Arkansas battery, Capt. Louis W. Brown, attached to Marmaduke's command. Brown had earlier been an officer in an Arkansas militia command. One of the other officers was Henry Halliburton, a sergeant serving with Marshall's Arkansas Battery.

Most of the thirty-four names which appear in the National Archives records under Brown's Arkansas Battery also can be found in the 27th Arkansas Regiment. Six each came from Companies "G" and "I"; another five were assigned from Company "F". Others appear to be from Companies "A", "B", "C", "E", "H" and "K".