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Lyon's-Cobb's Battery [often called the Orphan Battery] was organized during the summer of 1861 as Lyon's Battery. Not reaching full strength, it merged with Captain Cobb's company which was being formed. It was armed with four (4) 6lb. smoothbores and two (2) 12lb howitzers when it went into action at Shiloh, Tennessee on April 6th 1862. It suffered the highest losses of any Artillery Battery, on either side, at the Battle of Shiloh. It was part of the (also famous) 1st Kentucky Brigade known as the "Orphan Brigade". After fighting at Shiloh the unit served in Hanson's and Helm's Brigade, then Cobb's Battalion of Artillery. It fought at Baton Rouge before taking part in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta. The company lost 37 killed or wounded at Shiloh, reported 12 casualties in the fight at Chickamauga, and totalled 95 effectives in December, 1863. During the winter of 1864-1865 it disbanded.
Green's Kentucky Battery, Humphrey's Arkansas Battery, and Co. B, 2nd Alabama Light Artillery Battalion were merged into Cobb's Battery in January, 1864. The Battery was officially surrendered by Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, Commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, at Citronelle, Alabama on May 4, 1865.
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