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Re: Capt. Thornton's Company, VA Light Artillery

Here are thumbnail sketches of your kin. You may obtain their complete service
record file through the service noted above. They should prove quite interesting.
There are some 92 cards in Achilles file, 19 in James and only 3 in Pitts.

George Martin

Achilles Southworth

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 2/10/1862 at Bowling Green, VA as a Private.
On 2/10/1862 he mustered into VA Caroline Light Artillery
(date and method of discharge not given)
(Received $50.00 Bounty.)
He was listed as:
* Detailed 12/8/1862 Clothing Department (As shoemaker)
* On rolls 2/28/1865 (place not stated) (Detailed as shoemaker)

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James Lewis Barlow

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 3/18/1862 at Bowling Green, VA as a Private.
On 3/18/1862 he mustered into VA Caroline Light Artillery
(date and method of discharge not given)
(Received $50.00 bounty)
He was listed as:
* On rolls (date and place not stated) (Present on all muster rolls)
* Oath Allegiance 5/1/1865 Ashland, VA
Other Information:
born 2/25/1836 in Caroline County, VA
(Applied for pension Aug 11, 1902 at age 66; received
$15.00 per year. Alive in 1914.)

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Robert W. Pitts

Residence was not listed; 19 years old.
Enlisted on 11/14/1864 at Bowling Green, VA as a Private.
On 11/14/1864 he mustered into VA Caroline Light Artillery
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* On rolls 2/28/1865 (place not stated) (Present)
Other Information:
born 8/25/1845
died 4/14/1935
Buried: Mt Herman Baptist Cemetery, Shumansville, VA
(Applied for pension in Caroline Co, VA Sep 7, 1922
at age 76. Received $32.50 per year.)

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Thornton's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Caroline Light Artillery)

Captain Thornton's Company Virginia Light Artillery (Carolina Light Artillery)
was organized July 28, 1861. It served in Lightfoot's Battalion of Artillery, which
was composed of independent companies.

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I cannot find anything of this unit in any of the usual sources, nor of Lightfoot's. Below is what the US Army History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa list in their unit bibliography.

Title: Caroline Battery Virginia Light Artillery

USAMHI
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Caroline Battery Virginia Light Artillery

Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 4: Virginia. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1987. 1295 p. E484C65.1987v4. Contains numerous, scattered references to Virginia units.

Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent, 1987. Ref. See p. 396 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the battery's service.

Musselman, Homer D. The Caroline Light, Parker and Stafford Light Virginia Artillery. Lynchburg, VA: Howard, 1992. pp. 1-36. E581.8.CAR.M87.

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia. NY: Facts on File, 1992. p. 26 (1 photocopied page). E581S53. (Unit organizational history).

Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations, 1861-1865. Lynchburg, VA: Howard,1986. p. 34 (1 photocopied pages). E581.4W35. (Brief unit history).

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