CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
Tarrant's Battery, Alabama Light Artillery
- Overview:
- Tarrant's Battery was formed at Pollard, Alabama, in June, 1863, and remained there for several months. It joined the Army of Tennessee at Dalton and served in W.C. Preston's and D. Truehart's Battalion of Artillery. The company saw action at Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and Atlanta, then moved with Hood into Tennessee. In the fight at Nashville it lost most of its men and horses, and all of its guns. Transferred to the District of the Gulf, it served as infantry defending Fort Blakely, and there surrendered. The battery was commanded by Captain Edward Tarrant.
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