1st Battery, Missouri Light Artillery

HISTORICAL NOTES:

Little is known of this battery. It appears it had at least 4 companies.

Guibor's battery first served as a Missouri Volunteer Militia unit and was present at the capture of Camp Jackson (St. Louis, Mo.) on May 10, 1861. Later it served in the Missouri State Guard as part of the 6th Division. After the State of Missouri became the 12th State of the Confederacy, Guibor's Battery entered Confederate service in early 1862. It was soon combined with Montgomery Brown's Louisiana Battery on June 30, 1862. Guibor's Battery was armed with four 6-lb smoothbores that were surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. After parole, it became rearmed with four 12-1b Napoleons and served under Gen. Joseph Johnston until his command surrendered at Greensboro, NC on April 26, 1865. OFFICERS:

Commander: Capt. Henry M. Guibor

Chaplain: Father John Bannon

ROSTERS:
The rosters of this unit contains the names of 386 men. Some men came from Jasper and Marion County.

Captain Wesley Roberts' Company of Artillery.

Henry Guibor's Light artillery Battery - mustered at Van Buren, Arkansas

Emmett McDonalds's St. Louis Battery - mustered at Springfield, Missouri

Wade's (Welsh's) Missouri Battery - recruited from St. Louis, MO.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
REFERENCES:

REF: Crute, Joseph H., Units of the Confederate States Army