| ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE KANAWHA ARTILLERY |
| Commissioned and Noncommissioned Officers Jackson, Thomas E. -- Captain Martin, A.S. -- Captain/Asst. Surg. |
| Privates Asberry, George Washington Bane, Wythe Graham Beasley, John P. Black, Marshall R. Bland, William Boak, Jacob S. Brown, James Burroughs, Alexander Carter, William Chiddix, Eli Childress, James H. Clark, Timothy Conley, Gordon Cox, William E. Crawford, Addison C. Creasy, David F. Dalton, John F. Davidson, James M. Davidson, William L. Davis, Elijah G. Dawson, E.S. Dawson, John B. Deskins, Stephen Doss, Elias Doss, Sampson Dudley, George Washington Edison, Henry Elam, Alexander Hamilton Evans, James M. Fisher, Henry H. Fitch, WilliamM. Fitzgerald, John Flynn, William Fortner, Aaron Green French, A.P. Fugate, Reuben M. Gardner, John M. Geiger, George L. Gilliland, William S. Godby, Alexander Hamilton Hall, Charles Hall, George Hall, Ira Hammock, Lewis Hanshaw, Richard M. Harris, James D. Heff, John Henderson Thomas J. Henning, Charles L. Higginbotham, James Bane Hodges, J.G. Howard, James Oscar Hudson, William H. Hunter, John H. Hutchinson, D.L. Jackson, Charles Jackson, Clarence L. Jackson, J. Jaco, John Jones, James Jordan, John W. Kavanaugh, Q. or J.P. Kent, John M. Kipps, L.P.D. Kyle, John William Henry Lampkin, Edward W. Lampkin, Wood P. Legon, William S. Lester, Uriah Low, John B. Lowder, Andrew Jackson Lowder, George Washington Mahan, John W. Mahood, Alexander Maloy, Thomas Martin, James R. McCleary, Patrick McConnaha, Daniel S. McGlamery, Rudolph Meadows, Francis A. Miller, Robert A. Mitchell, George Moomaw, Robert H. Moon (or Noon) M.T. Mustard, Estel C. Mustard, John J. Necessary, Oscar C. Neff, John Neil, John A. Nelson, William L. Nichols, Morgan N. Norman, W.C. Nye, John W. Oakes, William Owens, Francis Marion Parker, David W. Parsill, James Parson, John Patrick, John M. Paul, Hezekiah Pauley, Thomsas G. Payne, Stephen Poteet, Isaih Price, Richard Pennington Rhodes, Charles L. Rhodes, John David Rider, William H. Risk, James Rodgers, Francis Marion Rodegers, John D. Roser, Peter D. |
| Sadler, Henry Sands, William J. Sercy, William J. Shanklin, James S. Sherherd, Thompson R. Shilling, William Shrewsberry, Samuel Shyrock, James Frederick Smith, Jefferson Smith, John N. Smith, William H. Stackhouse, John S. Stafford, William Starkey, G.M. Templeton, William G. Thayer, William Taylor Thomas, William John Thompson, Aca C. Thompson, James A. Thompson, John Thompson, John Thompson, L.P. Thompson, T. Shepperd Thompson, W.M. Thorn, Micajah A. Tickle, A.W. Tickle, Lewis E. Tombs, John Troxell, Francis Upton, Lewis Van Matre, David S. Vest, Floyd J. Ward, John B. Warren, Charles Warner, Charles Welch, James Clark Whittaker, George Washington Wilkinson, J.M. Williams, Samuel C. Williams, S.H. Williams, W.J. Wilson, J.N.B. Witlock, William R. Wood, John T. Woods, Marcellus Woods, Micajah Woodyard, Ephraim B. Wortham, R. Beverly Young, Thomas Jefferson |
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Jackson’s Kanawha
Artillery
Organized originally as Kanawha Artillery with John P. Hale's as its
Captain.
There was some question about Hale, that caused him to resigned. After Hale's
removal, Capt. Jackson took over command of the Kanawha. The company saw
action at Scary Creek and Carnifex Ferry. The battery was captured at Ft.
Donelson, Tennessee in 1862, having the distinction of serving in the west, as a
Virginia unit. However, the capture of the battery at Donelson brought a
temporary close to the history of the company till it could be reformed. As many
of the men returned from the prisoner of war camps in the North, Captain Thomas
E. Jackson, having held the captaincy of the battery before its capture,
reformed the battery in May of 1863. Sometimes referred to as Jackson's Kanawha
Artillery or Jackson's Artillery after reorganization. ( Later, after the war it
would also be referred to as the
Charlottesville Artillery.)
The company gained several recruits from the Virginia Line and the 8th Virginia
Cavalry. From engagements at Harrisonburg to Gettysburg and Droop Mountain
in 1863, the company returned the following year to engage in the battles of New
Market, Cold Harbor, Lynchburg, Monacacy, Georgetown, D.C., Cumberland, Md.,
Moorefield and numerous other battles in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
Losses were especially horrible in men captured at Moorefield and Fisher's Hill,
leaving the battery with reduced numbers for service in 1865. After the war, the
battery was mistakenly labeled the Charlottesville Artillery, perhaps as a
result of the affiliation of Micajah Woods with the battery, in the second half
of the units history.
| * This is a partial list of the roster of 193 total members. Anyone having information confirming other members of the Kanawha Artillery, please send name, rank and any other information to CSACANNON@aol.com. |
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