Waddell's Alabama Battery

Iron tablet located at Fort Garrott, tour stop 14 approximately .9 mile south of the railroad bridge on Confederate Avenue. Also iron tablets located at the 3rd Louisiana Redan, Park Tour Stop #3 and at the Railroad Redoubt, approximately .2 mile south of the railroad bridge on Confederate Avenue. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee's (assumed command 3 May 1863) 2nd Brigade of Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg and was commanded by Capt. J. F. Waddell. Three sections of the battery under Lts. T. Jeff Bates, W. D. Emory & R. H. Bellamy, were closely engaged in the Battle of Champion Hill on 16 May 1863. Casualties reported for the campaign and defense of Vicksburg were 18 killed in action, 40 wounded & 5 mission for a total of 63. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, page 644 and Volume III, pages 783, 785, 872 & 965.]

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