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13th Battalion Light Artillery was formed late in 1863 with three companies. Because the companies did not always served together, the history of each is given under its own designation. They are: Company A - Otey's-Walker's Battery; Company B - Ringgold Light Artillery; and Company C - Davidson's-Chamberlyne's Battery. The field officers were Lieutenant Colonel J. Floyd King, and Majors Wade H. Gibbes and William M. Owen.

Co A - Otey Battery, Richmond; afterwards Walker's Battery Va Arty; Organized March 14, 1862; enlisted in CSA service March 22, 1862, for the war
Captains: George Gaston Otey [d. Oct 21, 1862], David Norvell Walker
Cold Harbor - June 1864
Petersburg Seige - June 1864 to April 1865
Appomattox Campaign - March-April 1865

Co B - Ringgold Battery; organized February 15, 1862, for three years or the war; served as Capt Stamp's Va Arty; reported as Co B, Fitzgerald's 1st Regt CS Arty, which was a proposed command never formed
Captains: Timothy H. Stamps [resigned June 23, 1863], Crispin Dickenson
Cloyd's Mountain - May 9, 1864
New River Bridge - May 10, 1864
Cold Harbor - June 1-3, 1864
Peteersburg Seige - June 1864 to April 1865
Appomattox Court House - April 9, 1865

Co C - Davidson's Battery; formerly Capt George S. Davidson's Battery Va Arty; organized April 14, 1862 for the war; mustered in for a proposed battalion under Major H. Gray Latham, which never organized on account of his acceptence of an appointment as surgeon; rolls show recruits from Kentucky and Tennessee enlisted in this company
Captains: George S. Davidson [resigned August 4, 1864], John Hampden Chamberlayne
Petersburg Seige - June 1864 to April 1865
Sayler's Creek - April 6, 1865
Appomattox Court House - April 9, 1865

I wouldn't say that this was "low profile".

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