CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
Scott's Company, Tennessee Light Artillery (Bankhead's)
- Overview:
- Bankhead's-Scott's Battery was organized in May, 1861, at Memphis, Tennessee. It participated in the Battle of Shiloh, then was assigned to M. Smith's Battalion of Artillery, Army of Tennessee. The unit took an active part in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro to Missionary Ridge. Here many were disabled, and the company disbanded in December, 1863. It lost twenty-two percent of the 93 engaged at Shiloh, had 1 killed and 2 wounded of the 81 at Murfreesboro, and reported 2 killed and 14 wounded at Chickamauga. Captains S.P. Bankhead and William L. Scott were in command.
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