HOWELL'S COMPANY LIGHT ARTILLERY. Capt. Sylvanus Howell organized Howell's Company Light Artillery, also known as Howell's Battery and the Eleventh Texas Field Artillery, on April 22, 1862, four days after acquiring four guns. Howell recruited most of the men for his battery from Fannin County, Texas, and the battery served most of its time in the Indian Territory, Arkansas, and Missouri. It fought well in its first engagement at Newtonia, Missouri. In the battery's second fight, it lost all four of its guns at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory, when a Federal charge killed all of its artillery horses. Soon thereafter the unit replaced its lost guns with two six-pounders and two twelve-pounder howitzers but did not fight again until it joined Gano's Brigade.
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