You wrote:
So it would seem that our remaining possibilities for the mystery battery in Maury's brigade would be one of the following, either:
Teel's Texas battery
Lucas's ("Jackson Battery") Missouri battery
Gorham's Missouri battery
Kelly's Missouri battery or
Kneisley's Missouri battery
First, and foremost, I refer you to: Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 By James E. McGhee
Second, if you haven't already, the compiled service records requires tedious investigation but can offer many answers to the researcher
Last, I add below some information taken from my personal notes. [Much from RG 109 NARA unless otherwise noted]
The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. ; Series 1 - Volume 8
Organization of the First Division, Army of time West, ]Maj. Gen. Sterling Price commanding, March 17, 1862.
Frost's Arty Bgde
Gaines' btry
Good's btry, 6 guns
Gorham's btry, 4 guns, iron
Guibor's btry, 6 guns
Hart's btry, 4 guns
Kelly's btry, 5 guns, iron
Kneisly's btry, 5 guns, iron
Landis'' btry, 4 howitzers
Provence's btry, 6 guns
Teel's btry, 4 guns
Champion's Cav
May 5, 1862-Corinth
Statement of Mo troops in A of the W
Arty batteries: Agg Pres Agg P & A
Bledsoe’s 53 76
Clark’s 91 104
Gorham’s 43 50
Guibor’s 69 80
Kelly’s
Kneisley’s
Landis’ 62 69
Lucas’ 70 72
MacDonald’s 100 100
Tull’s …. …
Wade’s 107 116
Teel's Texas battery
Travanion T. Teel's Texas Btry served under Sibley in his New Mexico campaign of 1862.
Teel's [Tull] Missouri battery
Extracted from Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 By James E. McGhee
The battery is mistakenly referred to as “Teel’s Battery” in the reports of the battle of Pea Ridge.
...permanently consolidated with Captain Hiram Bledsoe’s battery about April 21, thereby ending its service as a separate organization.
Lucas's ("Jackson Battery") Missouri battery
3/17/62 announcing the organization of Price’s 1st Div of the Army of the West
Green 4th
Mo Infy to organize
McCulloch Cav
Lucas' Btry [later Lowe's]
Attached to Martin’s Bgde at battle of Corinth
Gorham's Missouri battery
Returned to the Trans Ms Dept in summer of 1862 with the remnants of Missouri State Guard troops under Gen Parsons’ command
5/1 The Guard [Infantry] left Memphis by train for Corinth. With Parsons East of the River
5/2 Gorham Mo btry [later returned to Ark w/Parsons’ MSG command] leaves Memphis for Corinth marching all the way while inf went by rail Missouri Brothers in Gray
5/6 Memphis-Capt Gorham requisition for bridles for his Btry
6/18 S O #117 Priceville
II. The troops under the command of Gen M. M. Parsons, known as the Mo State Guard, are relieved from duty with this army & will prepare to march tomorrow with 8 days' rations. The Confederate troops under Gen Parsons will, if Arty, report to the cdg officer of the Arty bgde; if inf or Cav, will report to the cdg officer of their division (Gen Little). A btry of 4 pieces of Arty will march with him. The rest of the Arty of Parsons' bgde will be turned over to the chief of Arty, or such officers as he may order to receive it, who will give the necessary receipts for the same. Gen Parsons will cause descriptive lists to be furnished to the Confederate troops under his command.
6/18 HQs Army of the West, Priceville, Kimmel to Col J P Major cdg arty-The Gen cdg directs that the Btry to be taken by Gen Parsons will consist of 5 guns in place of 4, with all appurtenances
Kelly's Missouri Battery
The Battle of Lexington: Fought in and Around the City of Lexington ...
By Lexington Historical Society (Lexington, Mo.),
LIEUT.-COL. BOYD'S OFFICIAL REPORT.
CAMP AT LEXINGTON MO September 22, 1861.
Lt. Col. D. W. FLOWERREE, Acting Ass't Adj. General,
Permit me to make the following report of the part sustained by the forces under my command in the battle of Lexington on the 20th inst. My command, consisting of six companies of cavalry, dismounted, under Captains Wells, Gibson, Robinson, Bostic, Bennett, and Lieutenant Moore, three companies of infantry, Captains Minter. Smith, Stout, and three pieces of artillery under Capt. E. V. Kelley…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_Ridge_Confederate_order_of_battle
Pea Ridge Confederate order of battle
Fifth Division Col James P. Saunders
Kelley’s Battery: Cpt Joseph Kelly
http://history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/mocwmb/webbbs_config.pl?md=read;id=19805
By:Bruce Nichols
Date: 3/17/2013, 11:12 pm
In Response To: Capt. E.V. Kelly? (Kirby Ross)
John and Kirby,
So, now you see why I am confused as to the true identity of the "Captain Kelly" who purchased the gunpowder and brought it to Jefferson City! The record got so muddled even back in the 1800's, as to which Kelly brought the powder to Jeff City. I had a crazy thought that perhaps one Captain Kelly bought and brought the powder to Jeff City in early 1861, while another Captain Kelly had the assignment of shipping the powder out of Jeff City in June 1861. However, that stretches credulity a bit further than I am willing to go.
I see in "Price's Lieutenants" on page 179 that Captain E. V. Kelly, was actually Ephraim V. Kelly, prewar a merchant of St. Joseph, who commanded an artillery battery. Just to add to the confusion, I read someplace that influential southerners of St. Joseph arranged their own gunpowder purchase and when the Yanks got close, they also arranged to have it secreted all over the Buchanan and Platte County area. I wonder if I read that in Preston Filbert's "The Half Not Told," (publ. Stackpole in 2001), but I am not sure. I see in Bartel's "The Forgotten Men" on page 179 that Captain E. V. Kelly was born in Jessamine County, KY; commanded Kelly's Battery, 6th Division, Missouri State Guard; and that he served at the battles of Lexington and at Pea Ridge, and that immediately before Pea Ridge he tendered his resignation to General Price. It also says he was on his way home to St. Joseph when Union troops captured him on 15 April 1862.
Regarding Captain Joseph Kelly, I see in the Missouri State Archives and in "The Forgotten Men" that this was probably Captain Joseph M. Kelly; who prewar lived in St. Louis; and also had served in the British army prior to our Civil War. Joseph was in Kelly's Missouri Battery of artillery in the Confederate army, in which there was a Joseph and a James Kelly. I also found a military service record there for 22-year-old James Kelly of Kelly's Battery who was a Canadian-born carpenter who resided in Missouri. In "Price's Lieutenant's" I found a J. H. Kelly, and then in Bartels' "The Forgotten Men" she listed a James H. Kelly who was wounded at Wilson's Creek. Jim McGhee in his "Guide to Missouri Confederate Units" on page 124 has Joseph M. Kelly as inspector general for General Parsons, in which Kelly had the guts to go to Major or LTC Robert R. Lawther's battalion and challenge Lawther and his officers for refusing to allow Confederate recruiters to pick some of their men to be detailed into other units. Kelly had the nerve to arrest several of Lawther's officers for this refusal, and then had two other Missouri Confederate units brought to Lawther's camp and force the issue. You have to admire a man with the intestinal fortitude to pull that off!
Kneisley's Missouri battery
James Kneisley’s Battery (Palmyra Light Artillery) of the 2nd Division, Missouri State Guard, after the company returned from brief service east of the Mississippi River. The battery reorganized for state service in Monroe County, Arkansas, on August 31, 1862, and mustered into the Guard with 66 men on the rolls the following day. While several soldiers objected, the battery transferred to Confederate service about September 18 at the same locale. The armament of the battery is unknown, although on November 9, orders transferred the “extra” howitzer of the unit to Captain Westley F. Roberts’ Missouri battery. Also on November 9, Major General Thomas C. Hindman ordered the battery consolidated with Captain James C. Gorham’s artillery company. Pursuant to that order, the battery disbanded on November 10, at Camp Mulberry in Franklin County, Arkansas
Missouri Brothers in Gray: The Reminiscences and Letters of William J. Bull ...
By William Jeffery Bull
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON. 131
On the morning of the -second day of the investment Gen. Harris and Gen. McBride completed the cordon by placing their lines along the north, on the river front. This line was supported throughout by Kelley's and Kneisley's batteries.
MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW,
October, 1910— July, 1911.
NARA
5/13 HQs MSG, Camp Churchill Clark, Col M M Parsons cdg MSG to Col M L Clark, cdg Arty Bgde-In accordance w/orders of yesterday evening, I immediately organized a btry of arty of 4 guns for special service selecting the best new horses & guns from the 3 btrys under my command & belonging to the Missouri State Guard, viz Capts Kneisley, Gorham & Guibor. The detail consists of 100 men who are ready to march at a moment’s warning.
The officers of the above 3 mentioned btrys were not a little surprised at my [socisoll…ig] your request through Capt Gorham that I should send Capt Kneiseley with his command to report to Gen Green for duty; and if I comply w/your request the special organization of 4 guns which I had made according to orders will be literally broken up for the reason that there is not a sufficient number of serviceable Btry horses in my encampment, were I to order Capt Kneiseley away, further Capt Kneiseley is chief in command of this organization-
Those btrys are state property and I need not repeat that I am placed in command of them by the Governor of my state. The horses were purchased with the funds of the State of Mo, a portion of which was placed at my disposal by Gov Jackson at Memphis. I submit for your consideration whether this property should be taken from Missouri troops where the Confederacy has no claims whatever on it.
You have already taken-as you say-by mistake 40 of the best horses. I have supplied the deficiency thus occasioned by Missouri funds believing that when able you would return other serviceable horses in lieu of those thus taken & upon that point I am content. I cannot consent to any further [… stores] of my command for like cause without entering my protest as the chief representative of Missouri State Troops and of her property now in this camp.
Col, it will at all times afford me pleasure to furnish to the Confederate States any materials of war belonging to the state of Missouri that is now or may be hereafter in my charge without impairing the efficiency of the troops, but at present you must pardon me for supplying anything further as to do so would in effect break up my organization.
5/14 HQs Army of the West, Maury to Col Snead-The arty Bgde is a distinct & separate organization from your division. The btrys assigned to Bgdes form an integral part of such Bgdes.
The MSG forms a part of the A of the W & its btrys therefore stand in the same relation to the arty bgde as any other batteries in this army.