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Re: Dabney Maury's brigade at Corinth May '62

Billy asked-If as of 13 May the reserve batteries/artillery brigade consisted of Landis's battery and Clark's battery now led by Capt. Houston King is it possible that Guibor's battery was also part of the reserve or artillery brigade before being attached to Parson's brigade?

Following is a chronology of events from my personal notes referencing Guibor’s battery showing that it was a part of the Artillery Brigade of the Army of the West prior to being assigned to Parsons' MSG Brigade.

[Note-all dates are 1862]

Announced in organization of 3/17/62:
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

3/25 Hqs Arty Bgde Camp Churchill Clark Gen Orders #5
Breaking up camp & will march tomorrow in following order:
Pioneers
Infantry
Cav
Arty-Lucas, Teel, Guibor, Bledsoe, Gorham, Good, Landis, Gaines, Provence –to be changed daily
Etc, etc.

3/25 Hqs Arty Bgde Camp Churchill Clark G O #8-Resignation of Lt’s Moulton & Christmas of Guibor’s Btry are effective today

3/25 Hqs Arty Bgde Camp Churchill Clark G O #9-Per orders from Division HQs, the other officers of Capt Guibor’s Btry announced

4/8 G O #27, HQ, Mo., Des Arc The resignation of Price, major-Gen of the MSG, has been received & is hereby accepted, to take effect from this date. The Cdr-in-Chief takes this occasion to express his sincere regret to the MSG at the loss of so gallant, experienced, & distinguished an officer from their councils, & to encourage them in such a performance of their future as will keep bright the fame have so nobly won under his leadership. By order of the Gov

4/8 Des Arc, Van Dorn to Gen Cooper: A portion of the Mo troops desire to continue in the service as MSGs for ninety days longer, under their own officers. Shall their services be accepted? They are good troops, but I doubt the propriety of retaining them in Confederate service as State troops, & would not advise it. Please answer as soon as convenient, as the troops are now embarking for Memphis.

4/8 Des Arc-G O #26 MSG
I. Brig. Gen M. M. Parsons is hereby specially detailed to the command of the entire MSG now in the field, and will immediately organize them into Co’s, Bns, and Regts, according to law.
II. The army corps to be thus organized will consist exclusively of infantry and Arty.
III. The general cdg will report as soon as practicable the entire force in the MSG now remaining, rank and file.
By order of the Governor: Warwick Hough, Adjutant-Gen of Missouri

4/21 Camp A S Johnston-Near Memphis, morning report of the Arty Bgde commanded by Gen D M Frost, Jas Shaler AG
[Includes Guibor’s Btry]

4/23/62 Memphis, Hqs 1st Div Army of the West, S O #43 by Gen Price
VI Maj M Lewis Clark CSA will assume command of the Arty Bgde
VIII the Cdr of the Arty Bgde will cause the Missouri Btrys in his command to be consolidated on the 26th that each company shall contain at least 70 privates.

4/24 Camp A S Johnston, Memphis-Arty Bgde-G O #1
I In compliance with S O #43 the undersigned assumes command of this Bgde…
II Co’s comprising this Bgde are as follows:
Bowman
Clark
Gorham
Guibor
Landis
Lucas
E McDonald
R McDonald
Reed
Ducat
Harris
Gaines
[All Mo Co’s except Gaines’ Ark Co]
Bennett’s Cav
Maj Brooks’ Cav Bn
By order of M L Clark, Maj cdg Bgde

4/25 Camp A S Johnston, Arty Bgde S O #1-Maj Brooks’ Bn of Cav & Capt Gaines’ Arty Co will report to Lt Col Danley per
S O #64 of 4/24
III Capt Gaines will supply his deficiency of horses and ammunition from Guibor and Gorham’s Btrys

4/28 Memphis, MSG S O #21 by Gen Parsons-Capt’s Guibor & Gorham of the MSG Arty will report to M L Clark, chief of Arty for A of W all their men who have been sworn into CS service.

4/28 Memphis, Maury to Missouri Gov Jackson, Memphis-I have been informed that there are 22 men in Gorham’s Btry & 6 men in Guibor’s, who have been sworn into CSA service. Please issue the proper orders to require them to report at once to Maj Clarke, chief of Arty.

5/5 Adams’ Ark Regt leaves Memphis for Corinth- Clark’s Arty Bgde also to leave
Maj L M Lewis Arty Bgde-290 men w/guns and equipage

5/13 Camp Churchill Clark S O #14
I-The assignment of Btrys to the several Bgdes of the Army of the West-under Par VII S O #83 of 5/12 will be as follows:
Price’s Div:
Little’s Bgde-Wade’s Btry
Whitfield’s Bgde-McDonald’s Btry
Green’s Bgde-Kneisley’s Btry
Parsons’ Bgde-Guibor’s Btry
S Jones Div:
Rust’s Bgde-Lucas’ Btry
Maury’s Bgde-Bledsoe’s Btry
Roane’s Bgde-Gaines’ Btry
McCown’s Div:
Cabell’s Bgde-Goode’s Btry
Churchill’s Btry-Provence’s Btry

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 Capt’s 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.

5/18 Arty Bgde, Camp Churchill Clark, Col M L Clark issues S O #19-The Arty Co’s of Gorham, Guibor & Kneisley will be reorganized into 2 full Co’s with 4 guns each. ..The Co now known as Capt Gorham’s will be attached to Parsons’ Bgde and the Capt of the other Co will report to Gen green. Col Major is charged with the execution of this order.

5/24 Arty Bgde, Camp Churchill Clark, Col M L Clark issues S O #21-Capt Wade will detach a Sctn to the Tuscumbia Bridge to relieve Guibor’s Sctn.
Capt Guibor will then report to Gen Parsons’ camp whereupon the Co’s of Guibor, Gorham & Kneisley will be organized into 2 Co’s as per order #19 of 5/18, which has not been possible before due to the proximity of the enemy.
5/26 Hqs A of West to Col [Clark]-In communicating orders involving changes in the Btrys which have been assigned to Bgdes you will do so through the Div Cdrs to which the Btrys have been assigned.

6/18 Hqs Arty Bgde, S O #33-Capt Guibor with his Co, Btry, etc will report to these Hqs to be assigned their position in the Arty park.

[Note-the top of this order was missing but it can be dated to the few days [6/27-7/3] that Maury was commanding while Price was visiting Richmond]-...The half section of arty Capt Brown cdg will at once be consol w/the-incomplete Btry of Capt Guibor-Brown is apptd 1st Lt of Guibor Btry
By order of Gen Maury-cdg Army of the West

6/28 G O #2 Priceville-Maury cdg
-Arty park of Army of West to break up & Btrys to report to their Bgdes

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