Val Verde Texas Battery
3-inch Ordnance rifle used by the Val Verde Battery after its capture in April 1864. It is located at the Freestone County, Texas, courthouse.
Active21 February 1862 – 26 May 1865
Country Confederate States of America
Allegiance Confederate States of America,  Texas
Branch Confederate States Army
TypeField Artillery
SizeArtillery Battery
Equipment3 x M1841 6-pounder field guns,
2 x M1841 12-pdr howitzer (Feb. 1862)
2 x M1841 6-pounder field guns,
2 x 3-inch Ordnance rifles (May 1864)
Engagements
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Joseph D. Sayers

The Val Verde Battery was an artillery battery from Texas that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. At the Battle of Valverde on 21 February 1862, the Confederates captured five artillery pieces from Union forces. The Confederates formed an ad hoc battery which fought at Peralta. The artillery battery officially formed on 1 June 1862 at Fort Bliss. It later transferred to Louisiana where it helped capture the USS Diana and fought at Fort Bisland and Vermillion Bayou in 1863. The following year, the battery served at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. After two old howitzers were replaced by two new captured guns, the unit fought at Monett's Ferry. At the end of the war in spring 1865, the soldiers buried their cannons. When the guns were dug up a few years later, the two new guns were the only ones that could be saved, and they have survived to this day.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Frazier 1995.

References

  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. 2. New York, N.Y.: Castle. 1956 [1883].
  • Boatner, Mark M. III (1959). The Civil War Dictionary. New York, N.Y.: David McKay Company Inc. ISBN 0-679-50013-8.
  • Frazier, Donald (1995). "Val Verde Battery". Handbook of Texas. Retrieved December 7, 2022.


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