The history of Harts Battery listed on the National Park Service Website indicates that "a section was transferred east of the Mississippi River. This section was eventually consolidated into Cobb's Kentucky Battery."

I thought this "section" that was transferred east might include the men that were clared by a Court of Inquiry which announced in General Oders No. 15, dated 17 July 1862.

Those men were Charles E. Steele, M. M. Tice, W. D. Moore, John Kennedy, B. L. Allen, William Masterson, N. B. Milton, and James Pitkins.

These men obviously did travel east wth the Army of the West, were still present in July 1862, and most have documents in their CSRs that indicate that Lieutenant Charles Ringer helped them obtain back pay from January 1862 up til the date tha the battery was ordered disbanded. These men seem to vanish at that point. I do not find them on the rolls of Cobb's Kentucky Battery. Many of these men also have a reference card in their CSR to Manuscript No 2060 (http://www.fold3.com/image/219835664/?terms=Hart#20/219834413/ ) which seems to have been a petition that they signed. I suspect this petition was for backpay, but if I could locate it, it may also give a clue as to what unit the men were attached to at the time of the petition.

Any thoughs on how to find the actual petition?