Texas 12th Field Artillery Battery

Source: Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas; Facts on File, Inc.; New York, NY, 1995, p. 22.

Nickname: Valverde Artillery

Organization: Organized on November 1, 1862 under authority of Brigadier General H.H. Sibley on April 30, 1862. It was armed with six guns, which had been captured at Valverde on February 21, 1862. Designated as the 12th Field Artillery Battery on November 19, 1864. It was armed with two 3" Rifles and two 12-lb. Howlitzers in May 1865. Surrendered by General E.K. Smith, commanding Trans-Mississippi Department, on May 26, 1865.

First Commander: Joseph D. Sayers (Captain)

Captain: T.D. Nettles

Assignments:

District of Texas, Trans-Mississippi Department (November - December 1862)

District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1862 - January 1863)

Artillery, District of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department (April - July 1863)

Artillery, Sub-district of Southwestern Louisiana, District of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department (July - December 1863)

Artillery, District of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1863)

Green's Cavalry Brigade, Eastern Sub-District, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1863 - March 1864)

Green's-Bagby's Brigade, Green's Cavalry Division, District of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department (March - September 1864)

1st (Semmes') Horse Artillery Battalion, 2nd (Maxey's) Texas Cavalry Division, 1st Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (September 1864 - February 1865)

Artillery, Wharton's Cavalry Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (March - May 1865)

Battles:

Fort Bisland (April 12 - 13, 1863)

Bayou Bourbeau [section] (November 3, 1863)

Red River Campaign (March - May 1864)

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