CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
McClung's Company, Tennessee Light Artillery
- Overview:
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McClung's Battery was organized during the fall of 1861 and mustered into Confederate service
at Knoxville, Tennessee. In January, 1862, it reported 79 men present for duty and later was
active in the conflicts at Fishing
Creek
and Shiloh. The battery
served at Vicksburg during the
summer of 1862, was stationed at Port Hudson in August, then moved to East Tennessee. It was
later detached with no guns to Saltville, Virginia and in April, 1864, had 4 officers and 47 men.
In August the company was equipped with four guns, then most of the command was captured at
Morristown on October 28. The 17 men who escaped reported to Captain Lynch's Battery which
disbanded in April, 1865, at Christiansburg, Virginia. Captain Hugh L.W. McClung commanded
the unit.
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