Served as Company C, 14th Battalion Artillery, and so reported as late as Dec. 62. Soon afterwards it became an Independent Battery and served in Roddey's [Cavalry Brigade] Command in District of North Alabama
Captain C. B. [Coleman Byrd] Ferrell, age 33, enrolled in Company C*, Montgomery's Battalion Georgia Light Artillery May 6, 1862 at La Grange, Georgia, attached to Brig. Gen. P. D. Roddey's Division Decembe 20, 1864
* This company subsequently became Captain Ferrell's Battalion Georgia Light Artillery.
The 14th (also known as Montgomery's) Battalion Georgia Light Artillery was organized about May, 1862, with four companies, A to D. In October, 1862, two additional companies appear to have been organized by transfer from other companies of the battalion and reported as Companies F and G. Captain Wiggins' Battery Arkansas Light Artillery was temporarily attached to this battalion as Company F. The battalion appears to have been disbanded during the latter part of 1862, or the early part of 1863, and the companies afterward recognized as independent batteries.
398 Men listed in Company C
G. B. Ferrell, Captain
Wm. D. Henderson, 1st Lt.
Sidney A. Moses, 1st Lt. to Captain Company G
James M. Truitt, 2nd/1st Lt.
Beny. J. Cameron, 2nd Lt., to Adj.
Nathan Davis, 1st Lt.
W. H. Ogburn, 2nd Lt.
John C. Batte, 2nd/1st Lt
W. C. Wheeler, A. A. S.
W. C. Wheeler, Acting Assistant Medical Officer [Contract Surgeon], Ferrell's Light Artillery, recorded on April 21, 1864 as at various stations in Georgia, stationed at Cornith, Mississippi on or about August 15, 1864, stationed near Courtland, Alabama November 1864
M266: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia
14th Battalion, Georgia Light Artillery (Montgomery's)
14th Artillery Battalion was organized during the fall of 1862 with six companies. The unit was assigned to the Army of Tennessee but served detached much of the time as it was an administrative organization rather than a field command. The different companies served in Tennessee and in North Mississippi, and most were active in the Atlanta Campaign. It is not known how many members surrendered in North Carolina, but Batteries A and E no longer had cannons were serving as infantry. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph T. Montgomery and Major Joseph Palmer were in command. [NPS Soldiers and Sailors System]