Captain Sylvanus Howell, 11th Texas Light Artillery
Organized: on 4/22/62
Mustered Out: 5/26/65

Anderson Bone, Private, Captain Howell's Artillery Company C, was "slightly wounded in top of right shoulder" in the engagement at Fort Wayne, Cherokee Nation, October 22, 1862, no other records

11th Field Battery, Texas Light Artillery (Howell's Company)

Howell's Battery was organized during the spring of 1862. The unit primarily served in the Indian Territory attached to the Trans-Mississippi Department. It reported 2 casualties at Newtonia and 22 at Old Fort Wayne, and in December, 1863, about 75 effectives were present. Later the company was assigned to the 6th Artillery Battalion and ended the war at Doaksville in June, 1865. Its commander was Captain Sylvanus Howell.

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Captain Sylvanus Howell, 11th Texas Light Artillery
Organized: on 4/22/62
Mustered Out: 5/26/65

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The U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., lists the following in their unit bibliography:

Title: Howell's Battery Texas Artillery

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Howell's Battery Texas Artillery

Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 15: Texas. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1989. E484C65.1987v15. Contains numerous, scattered references to Texas units.

Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent, 1987. Ref. See p. 344 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the battery's service.

Fitzhugh, Lester N. Texas Batteries, Battalions, Regiments, Commanders and Field Officers, Confederate States Army, l86l-l865. Midlothian, TX: Mirror Pr, 1959. E580.3F5. See p. 1 (1 photocopied page) for a list of officers.

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas. NY: Facts on File, 1995. pp. 21-22 (2 photocopied pages). E580S53. (Unit organizational history).

Wright, Marcus J., comp. Texas in the War, l86l-l865. [Ed. by Harold B. Simpson] Hillsboro, TX: Hill Jr Coll Pr, l965. E5809W7. Contains numerous references to Texas units.