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Georgia Washington Light Artillery

HISTORICAL NOTES:

The Washington Artillery Company of Augusta, Georgia, was one of the finest units mustered into Southern service in the early spring of 1861. Well trained, well armed and superbly led, the company was the pride of the state and of its home city. It was the first artillery battery taken into the Confederate Army from Georgia. In its first (and only) major engagement at Shiloh a year later, the battery exhibited the kind of dash and discipline expected of regular troops. Its conduct on the first day of that battle, in conjunction with the infantry brigade of General John K. Jackson, could serve as an example of how small unit infantry-artillery combined operations should be conducted.

FIELD OFFICERS:

BATTLES:

ROSTERS:

Muster Roll

Additional rosters may be found in the book, "Augusta's Pet Company":

Roll of the Washington Light Artillery Georgia Volunteers Who participated in the Battle of Shiloh, on the 6th and 7th of April, 1862*
Officers selected at the new organization of the company "for the war"
Roll of enlisted men for 12 months [i.e., not reenlisting for the war]
"List of Officers and Men on Detached Service from Pritchard's Battery, Georgia Vols." prepared by Captain E. E. Pritchard, April 10, 1864*
Muster Roll of Pritchard's Battery December 31, 1864* [excludes 81 men on detached assignment] [roll incomplete]

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REFERENCES:

Sifakis - The Compendium of the Confederate Armies