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Fenner's Battery, Louisiana Light Artillery (view source)
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=== Brief History === | === Brief History === | ||
"Fenner's Battery was organized during the later summer of 1862. It returned to Mobile, aided in the defense of the city, and surrendered in May, 1865.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref> | "Fenner's Battery was organized during the later summer of 1862. It returned to Mobile, aided in the defense of the city, and surrendered in May, 1865.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref> | ||
Organized May 16, 1862 at Jackson, Mississippi from men disbanded from the 1st Louisiana Infantry Battalion. They were attached to General Hood's army in Georgia and then transferred to General Nathan B. Forrest's army at Murfreesboro. The company gave up the last of its guns at Mobile in April 1965. The battery was paroled at Meridian in May 1865.<ref>Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., ''Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units 1861-1865,'' (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 30–31. {{WorldCat|45731931|At various libraries, WorldCat}} {{FHL|417262|item|disp=FHL Book 976.3 M2ba}}</ref><br> | |||
=== Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin === | === Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin === | ||