Donaldsonville Louisiana Artillery
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The Donaldsonville Louisiana Artillery was a Louisiana artillery unit that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed from an old militia company, it arrived in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War in September 1861 with three obsolete guns and was equipped with three additional rifled guns. The battery fought at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Glendale, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Shepherdstown and Fredericksburg in 1862. The following year the unit served at Gettysburg and in the Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns. The battery fought in the Overland campaign and at the Siege of Petersburg in 1864. It surrendered at Appomattox in April 1865.
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Donaldsonville Louisiana Artillery | |
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Active | August 1861 – 9 April 1865 |
Country | Confederate States of America |
Allegiance | Confederate States of America Louisiana |
Branch | Confederate States Army |
Type | Artillery |
Size | Company (103 men, Sept. 1861) |
Nickname(s) | Maurin's Battery, Landry's Battery |
Equipment | 2 x 10-pounder Parrott rifles 3 x M1841 6-pounder field guns 1 x 3-inch Ordnance rifle (Sept. 1862)[1] |
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Notable commanders | Victor Maurin R. Prosper Landry |
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