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Cobb’s (Lyon’s) Kentucky Battery, Cobb’s Kentucky Battery or the 1st Kentucky Battery is another unit for which no official report exists about its actions during the Battle of Shiloh. This is the same situation I faced while researching Byrne's Mississippi/Kentucky Battery recently.
I have pierced together some excerpts from Colonel Robert Trabue’s official report and items from other sources in an attempt to bring forth the performance of this battery to light again. Far too often the unit and the men who make up its complement are forgotten to history which is just wrong. Men who are willing to go to war to fight for their beliefs should be recognized for their fidelity to cause and country.
The battery was formed under the leadership of Hylan B. Lyon in 1861 and soon was ordered to Clarksville, TN and joined the Confederacy under the command of Captain Robert L. Cobb and assigned to General John C. Breckenridge’s Kentucky Brigade also known as the “Orphan Brigade.
The following quoted material is from the Shiloh National Park’s Monument Location System.
Regards
David
First Brigade-Reserve Corps-Army of the Mississippi
Colonel Robert P. Trabue
I have pierced together some excerpts from Colonel Robert Trabue’s official report and items from other sources in an attempt to bring forth the performance of this battery to light again. Far too often the unit and the men who make up its complement are forgotten to history which is just wrong. Men who are willing to go to war to fight for their beliefs should be recognized for their fidelity to cause and country.
The battery was formed under the leadership of Hylan B. Lyon in 1861 and soon was ordered to Clarksville, TN and joined the Confederacy under the command of Captain Robert L. Cobb and assigned to General John C. Breckenridge’s Kentucky Brigade also known as the “Orphan Brigade.
The following quoted material is from the Shiloh National Park’s Monument Location System.
Regards
David
First Brigade-Reserve Corps-Army of the Mississippi
Colonel Robert P. Trabue
This brigade formed the advance of the reserve corps and reached the forks of the Bark and Pittsburg roads about 8 a.m. Sunday morning, April 6, 1862. It was sent forward on Pittsburg road to support General Polk's line and soon after deployed to the left of the road in the following order from left to right: Fourth Kentucky, Sixth Kentucky, Thirty-first Alabama, Fifth Kentucky, Fourth Alabama, Crew's Tennessee battalion, Third Kentucky, with Cobb's (Kentucky) battery and `Byrne's (Mississippi) battery in the rear.