CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA TROOPS
8th Battalion, Louisiana Heavy Artillery
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8th Artillery Battalion was organized during the early spring of 1862 with men from the
New Orleans area. Serving as heavy artillery and containing four companies, the unit was
stationed at Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. Later it was ordered to Mississippi and attached to the
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Garrisoned at Vicksburg for more than a year, it was
captured when the city fell in July, 1863. That December only 42 men were present, and they
moved to Mobile. Here the battalion served at Forts Gaines and Morgan, and in August, 1864,
most were captured. The unit no longer existed. Its commanders were Lieutenant Colonel
William E. Pinkney and Major Frederick N. Ogden.
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