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===Brief History=== | === Brief History === | ||
===Companies=== | *Organized during April, 1862. | ||
*For a time, part of this company served with the 59th Virginia Regiment. | |||
*It was assigned to J. J. Garnett's, C. Richardson's, and W. T. Poague's Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. | |||
*The unit served with the army from Fredericksburg to Cold Harbor, was active in the defense of Petersburg, and ended the war at Appomattox. | |||
*At Gettysburg 4 officers and 86 men saw action, and during April, 1864, there were 3 officers and 72 men present. | |||
*That September about half (30) the battery was sick, and in April, 1865, it surrendered 2 officers and 68 men. | |||
*Captains John W. Lewis and Nathan Penick. | |||
*AKA - Lewis' Battery or Pittsylvania Artillery | |||
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