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You can procure his service record file through the service noted in the Red enclosed box above.

George Lucas, Private, Captain Gustave A. Huwald's Battery of Horse Artillery, Tennessee Volunteers*, enlisted July 11, 1863 in HaroKins/Harrcock County by Squire Ball for the duration of the war, last recorded present on the Nov & Dec, 1863 muster roll, no further records

* This battery subsequently became Captain Ramsey's Battery Tennessee Artillery, Hamilton's Battalion.

Hamilton's Battalion was a temporary field organization, composed of independent batteries from various States.

M268: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee, Roll 96 Capt. Palmer's Co. Light Artillery {Reneau Battery], etc. . . . .

There was also a,

George J. Lucas, Private, Company B, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (Jackson's Regiment)

1st Regiment, Tennessee Heavy Artillery (Jackson's)

1st Heavy Artillery Regiment was organized at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in May, 1862. The men were from Memphis and Lake and Tipton counties. It was ordered to Mississippi and assigned to J.C. Moore's Brigade in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. The regiment manned the upper batteries near Fort Hill during the long Vicksburg siege and was captured on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged in December, it moved to Fort Morgan, Alabama, during April, 1864. Serving under General Page with about 200 men, the unit was again captured in August. The field officers were Colonel Andrew Jackson, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel Robert Sterling, and Majors F.W. Hoadley and J.D. Upton.
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm

Geo J. Lucas, Private, (2nd) Company B, 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery,* January 27,1862 at Fort Pillow by Col. Walker for one year, captured at Vicksburg July 4, 1863, refused to sign parole, sent to Memphis, Tennessee July 18, 1863, applied for permission to take the Oath of Allegiance December 5, 1863 while a prisoner of war at Camp Morton prison camp, Indianapolis, Indiana, subscribed to Oath at Camp Morton January 3, 1865, resident of Lauderdale County, Tenn., light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, 5' 8", no further records

* This company appears to have been composed principally of men from (1st) Companies A, C, G and H, this regiment. The 1st was also known as Jackson's Regiment Tennessee Heavy Artillery

M268: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee

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