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Field artillery in the American Civil War refers to the artillery weapons, equipment, and practices used by the artillery branch to support infantry and cavalry forces in the field. It does not include siege artillery , use of artillery in fixed fortifications, coastal or naval artillery .
A battery of four to six cannons, with two to three two-cannon sections was the basic unit of the artillery branch. The organization was commanded by a captain with first and second lieutenants as section chiefs and chief of caissons. A battery organization was roughly company strength, as it related to the infantry branch.
14th Ohio Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was also known as Burrows’ Battery after its commander Jerome B. Burrows. [ 1 ]
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
14 Months in the Union Artillery: The Diary of Private Wallace Byrd, 16th Ohio Battery, September, 1861 to October, 1862 (Springfield, OH: Larry Marple), 1998. Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. History of the Sixteenth Battery of Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, U.S.A.:
The 18th Independent Battery New York Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was organized in September 1862 and shipped to New Orleans. The battery fought at Fort Bisland, Vermilion Bayou, Plains Store, and Port Hudson in 1863.
Battery H, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The battery was organized in December 1861 at Springfield, Illinois before traveling to Cairo and to western Kentucky in early 1862.
Battery C, 1st Missouri Light Artillery Regiment, also known as Mann's Independent Missouri Battery, was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Organized between November 1861 and February 1862, Mann's Independent Battery fought at Shiloh and in the Corinth siege .