The 2nd Alabama Artillery Battalion, Companies “A”-”F”, was formed at Mobile in January 1862, with five companies later reduced to three. It was attached to the Department of the Gulf, and after January, 1864, the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The unit was stationed at or near Mobile throughout the war and participated in the conflicts at Forts Gaines and Morgan, Spanish Fort, and Fort Blakely. With 64 officers and men, it surrendered on 4 May 1865.
This company was organized at Tuscaloosa on 29 November 1861 and reported for duty at Mobile,125 strong. The battery was recruited from Fayette, Pickens, and Tuscaloosa counties. Stationed at Fort Gaines until, after Shiloh, the battery relieved Charles P. Gage’s at Tupelo, and were given six guns. The battery skirmished at Farmington, and in the Kentucky campaign fought at Perryville with small loss. At Chickamauga, there were several casualties, and the battery lost a gun. Its pieces moved down the road from Dalton to Atlanta, losing 5 k and 25 w in casualties. The battery’s loss was small around Atlanta; but having marched with the army into Tennessee, it was overwhelmed at Nashville, losing its guns, six men k, and 22 captured. Placed in Spanish Fort, they were under fire for two weeks, with some loss. Moving up toward Marion Station, Mississippi, the battery was surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana, at Citronelle, Alabama, on 4 May 1865.
Officers:
LUMSDEN, Charles L., Capt.
VAUGHN, George W., Sr. 1st Lt.
HURST, William E., 2nd Lt., 1st Lt.
CRIBBS, Harvey H., Jr. 2nd Lt., 1st Lt.
HARGROVE, Ebenezer H., Sr. 2nd Lt., 1st Lt.
HARGROVE, Andrew Coleman, 2nd Lt.
CALDWELL, John A., 2nd Lt.
TARRANT, Edward, Jr. 2nd Lt., 2nd Lt.
SKYES, Joseph Porter, Cadet, CSA
JARRETT, A. L., Asst Surgeon
COULSON, P. D., Asst Surgeon
McMICHAEL, R. A., Acting Asst Surgeon
CAMPBELL, J. Payne, Acting Surgeon
LITTLE, George, 1st Sgt., Orderly Sgt.
CALDWELL, John A., Sgt., 1st Piece
HAIRSTON, Sam, Sgt., 3rd Piece
HARGROVE, Andrew Coleman, Sgt., 5th Piece
HESTER, Wiley G. W., Sgt., 2nd Piece
MARTIN, Horace Walpole, Sgt., 4th Piece
MILLER, James L., Sgt., 6th Piece
SNOW, John, Quartermaster Sgt.