3rd Battery, Arkansas Artillery

HISTORICAL NOTES:
The 3rd Arkansas Field Battery (1860–1865) was from Pulaski County, Arkansas. The battery is also known as the Totten Light Artillery, Pulaski Light Artillery, the Weaver Light Artillery, Woodruff's Battery, and Marshall's Battery. The battery originated as a pre-war Militia company, initially enrolled in state service. After the Battle of Wilson's Creek, the battery was released from state service and eventually reorganized for Confederate Service. The battery provided the initial training for the leaders of numerous other Arkansas artillery batteries during the Civil War. The battery spent its entire service in the Department of the Trans-Mississippi.

William E. Woodruff, Jr, in his book With the Light Guns in '61-65', reports that Zimmerman's 7th Arkansas Field Battery and Marshall's 3rd Arkansas Field Battery were consolidated, under the command of Captain Zimmerman, before the end of the war and the consolidated organization was in camp near Marshall, Texas, when the war ended. This battery surrendered by General E. Kirby Smith with the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865. OFFICERS:

1860 Captain Robert C Newton

1861-1862 Captain William Edward Woodruff, Jr.,

1862-1865 John G. Marshall

ASSIGNMENTS:
BATTLES: Wilson's Creek ROSTERS: The roster of this battery contains the names of 8 men.

Curtis, J.
Denson, J.W.
Giles, Joseph
Hays, J.H.
Howard, Miles
Howard, Willis S.
Kelly, J.R.
Lester, F.C.
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REFERENCES: REF: Wikipedia
Crute - Units of the Confederate States Army
Sifakis - Compendium of the Confederate Armies