CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
Lynch's Company, Tennessee Light Artillery
- Overview:
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Lynch's Battery was organized at New Market, Jefferson County, Tennessee, in December,
1861. It contained men from Jefferson, Cocke, Greene, Washington, and Sullivan counties. The
unit served as heavy artillery at Vicksburg
and was captured on July 4, 1863. After being
exchanged and reorganized as light artillery, it was assigned to General Vaughn's Brigade,
Department of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Many of the men were killed, wounded,
or captured at Marion, Virginia, and the remaining few disbanded at Christiansburg, Virginia, on
April 12, 1865. Its commander was Captain John P. Lynch.
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