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This NC unit was trained and drilled as an artillery battery but, because adequate artillery was unavailable, the unit was in danger of being disbanded and incorporated into the infantry. In April of 1862, the Tredegar Ironworks Foundry poured four distinctive cannon – two six- pounder and two twelve-pounder Howitzers – which were assigned to the battery. The muzzle face of each cannon was marked with its foundry number and the letters “E.B.”

What was the name given to the NC battery to which these four cannon were assigned?

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Today we present a very rare cannon located at Tour Stop #4 (Ruggles' Battery) on Shiloh Battlefield. This 6-pounder field piece was used by the Edenton Bell Battery out of North Carolina.

Recruited in March 1862, Company B, 3rd Battalion North Carolina Artilley, were in Richmond, Virginia, and due to a lack of available cannon, were almost transfered to the infantry. They sent a representative to Edenton, NC, to request donations of church and plantation bells to be melted down and cast into cannons.

The bells were sent to the Tredegar Foundry in Richmond and cast into four weapons, two 6-pounders and two 12-pounder Howitzers. The gun we have was named the "Edenton" because it was cast from the bell of the 1731 Edenton Courthouse. It was captured in the Battle of Town Creek (NC) on February 20, 1865.

One of the other Edenton bell guns, a 12-pounder named the "Saint Paul," survives and is in Edenton today. The other two bell guns are missing, and believed to have been dumped into the Eno River during the unit's retreat after Bentonville.

The Edenton is on Ruggles' Line, second cannon south of Pittsburg Landing Road. Muzzle is marked 1531/E.B

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The 3rd Battalion NC Light Artillery Co. B, "The Edenton Bell Battery"
What a great story, to be found here:

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http://www.edentonbellbattery.org/originaledenton/history.html
 
This NC unit was trained and drilled as an artillery battery but, because adequate artillery was unavailable, the unit was in danger of being disbanded and incorporated into the infantry. In April of 1862, the Tredegar Ironworks Foundry poured four distinctive cannon – two six- pounder and two twelve-pounder Howitzers – which were assigned to the battery. The muzzle face of each cannon was marked with its foundry number and the letters “E.B.”

What was the name given to the NC battery to which these four cannon were assigned?

credit: @lelliott19
Edenton Bell Battery.
 
Edenton Bell Battery, 3rd Battalion North Carolina Light Artillery Company B. Originally recruited as the Albemarle Artillery. Four large bells from Edenton, NC were melted down to make the cannon.
The source, Wikipedia article, "Edenton Bell Battery," gives details about each bell and the names given to each cannon.
 
The Edenton Bell battery

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