Raynors HCA 2015-08
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Confederate imprint 1pp. octavo, Decatur, Georgia, January 27, 1864, and reads in part: "...At a meeting of the non-commissioned officers and privates of company B, twentieth artillery battalion, Alabama volunteers, called for the purpose of considering the subject of re-enlisting for the war, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, the present perilous condition of our country demands that every true patriot should be found at his post, fronting the enemy; and that as soldiers of nearly three years experience, whose term of enlistment will soon expire, we feel that a failure to promptly tender our services, for such period as may be required, to free our beloved land from the presence of a merciless invader, or fill a soldier's grave, would exhibit a want of patriotism and personal courage not to be found, we hope, in any army in the Confederate States; therefore, be it Resolved, That we re-enlist for the war. Resolved, That, appealing to Heaven, with a firm reliance in the justice of our cause, we will never lay down our arms until the last invader shall have been expelled, and the battle cross of the South float triumphantly over every foot of southern soil..." Rebel archives stamp, very good condition. Waddell's Alabama Artillery Battery was organized in February 1862 by an order allowing up to 20 men to be taken from each company of the 6th Alabama Regiment. Equipped with eight guns, the battery was in the Kentucky Campaign. Sent to Mississippi with Gen'l Carter L. Stevenson's Division, the battery was badly cut up and lost nearly all its guns at Baker's Creek. It lost more men during the Siege of Vicksburg and was there captured when the fortress fell, 4 July 1863. It was paroled later and declared exchanged on 12 September 1863. The battery was increased to a battalion and designated as the 20th Light Artillery in October 1863. Company "A" was organized at Columbus, Georgia in November 1863 and ordered to Dalton. There it became a part of the Army of Tennessee for the campaigns of 1864. At Girard, while confronting Wilson, the guns and two-thirds of the men were captured. Company "B" was also organized at Columbus in November 1863 and sent to Dalton. It participated in the Atlanta Campaigns armed with two 6-lb. and two 12-lb Blakeleys. Its losses were not severe. Ordered to Columbus, the battery fought Union Gen'l James Wilson at Girard where the men were dispersed and the guns abandoned.
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