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Re: 1st Battery Light Artillery

Thanks for your help Jim. While doing the biographies of the Camp Chase dead I ran across a soldier whose tombstone at Camp Chase reported him in a Mississippi Battery. His name was Patrick Quinn referred to as Pat Quinn on his tombstone.

While looking through the CMSR's of Mississippi soldiers under Patrick Quinn there was one noted in Company I 1st (Johnston's) Mississippi Infantry and it said he was wounded at the Battle of Franklin as found on page nine. Partly because of the age differences and because of the rank I believe that page nine was a cross-over. A cross-over is where a soldier CMSR's are on another soldiers CMSR's.

While I did see a Patrick Quinn with the 1st Battery Light Artillery I could not find that particular unit on the Confederate Order of Battle at Nashville or at Franklin on Wikipedia.

In my opinion Patrick Quinn was wounded at Franklin and may have been taken to Columbia by Hood's Army but was left there during the retreat. It's my further opinion that when General Ainsworth and his staff were making the Confederate CMSR's they were not sure what to do with him and placed him in another soldiers CMSR.

Looking at the Federal POW records on ancestry I did see a Patrick Quinn as died at Camp Chase and they listed him with the "1st MO. Batty" and buried in the same grave of that of Pat Quinn of the Mississippi Battery and died on the same day on May 30, 1865.

Your knowledge of this unit has confirmed what I had believed. Perhaps someday he may have a correct tombstone. Thanks again for your help.

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