Company "A"
14th Battalion
Georgia Light Artillery
Organized as the Southern Rights Battery in Perry, Houston Co., Georgia in March of 1862, this battery would later become known as "Palmer's Battery" and then as "Havis's Battery". Most of the officers and sergeants were recently discharged veterans of company C, 1st Ga. Infantry (Ramsey's) who had seen service in Virginia. The battery was mustered in to Confederate service, 14th Battalion, Georgia Light Artillery, by Captain Joseph T. Montgomery at Perry, Georgia on April 26, 1862.
The unit went to camps of instruction at Griffin and at Calhoun. As the best drilled battery in the battalion, Southern Rights Battery was selected to join Bragg's army in the invasion of Kentucky (Battle for the Bluegrass), receiving their baptism of fire at Perryville, October 8, 1862, attached to Brown's Brigade, Anderson's Division of Hardee's Corps.
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Company C, (Ferrell's Battery)
The company was mustered into Confederate service by Maj. Montgomery on May 31, 1862. Captain C. B. Ferrell was Battery “C” commander, giving his age as 33 and having volunteered May 6, 1862 in LaGrange, Georgia. The entire company roster lists one Adjutant, three 1st Lieutenants, one Surgeon, one 1st Sergeant, two 2nd (Master) Sergeants, five Sergeants, five Corporals, two Farriers, one Bugler and 154 Privates.
All seven companies of the 14th Georgia served the Army of Tennessee during the year 1862, after which the companies were scattered and the Battalion was not preserved as a unit. Ferrell’s Battery was attached to General Roddey in Mississippi and later retreated by way of Selma, Alabama. One part of the company was sent to Columbus, Georgia; the other was engaged in the battle of West Point on April 16, 1865, where Private Robert Hamlin was killed.
Civil War artillery batteries were normally armed with four or six guns. These were divided into two-gun “sections” under the command of a Lieutenant. Battery “C” was armed with two 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 12-lb. Howitzers on November 11, 1864. It was armed with two 3” Rifles, two Smoothbores and two 12-lb. Howitzers on April 1, 1864.
At war’s end, it was surrendered by Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana, at Citronelle, Alabama on May 4, 1865. At various times during the war, It was assigned to Forrest’s Cavalry, Roddey’s Brigade, Wheeler’s Cavalry Corps and Robertson’s Artillery Battalion.
Battles in which the company participated include:
Cherokee Station, Dec. 12, 1862
Town Creek, April 28, 1863
Chickamauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863
Chattanooga Siege, Sept.-Nov. 1863
Atlanta Campaign (one section) July-Sept. 1864
Tupelo (two sections) July 14, 1864
Forrest’s Middle Tennessee Raid, Sept.-Oct.1864
Wilson’s Raid (two sections) March 22-April 24, 1865
Brice‘s Crossroads.
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The following contact is listed as knowledgeable of the 14th Georgia LA.
Don't know if this is a current address.
14th Battalion GA Light Artillery tburger@hom.net (Doug Burger)