CONFEDERATE KENTUCKY TROOPS
Cobb's Company, Kentucky Light Artillery
- Overview:
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Lyon's-Cobb's Battery [often called the Orphan Battery] was organized during the summer
of 1861 as Lyon's Battery. Not reaching full strength, it merged with Captain Cobb's company
which was being formed. After fighting at Shiloh the unit served in Hanson's and
Helm's Brigade, then Cobb's Battalion of Artillery. It fought at Baton Rouge before taking part in the
campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta. The company lost 37 killed
or wounded at Shiloh, reported 12 casualties in the fight at Chickamauga, and totalled 95
effectives in December, 1863. During the winter of 1864-1865 it disbanded. Captains Robert
Cobb and H.L. Lyon were in command.
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