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Confederate States of America. Army. --Kilcrease Light Artillery.
Title, Dates:
Kilcrease Light Artillery records, 1863-1864.
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2.00 v.
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The Company Descriptive Roll is alphabetical, the Morning Report Book is chronological.
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The Kilcrease Light Artillery, also known as Villepigue's Light Battery, organized in 1863 as a Florida company in the Confederate Army, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Fred L. Villepigue, who had served as Florida's Secretary of State (1853-1863), was elected Captain of the battery. The initial muster of the Kilcrease Light Artillery occurred at Camp Leon, Florida. By September 1863, the unit was stationed at Camp Ashby, Georgia, near Savannah. Later, the unit moved to reinforce the Confederate troops defending Charleston and Johns Island, South Carolina.
The Kilcrease Light Artillery returned to Florida in March 1864 to support the Confederate defenses at Camp Milton, west of Jacksonville. In August 1864 at Brandy Branch, the unit skirmished with Union forces. In March 1865 at Natural Bridge, it assisted in repelling a Union thrust against Tallahassee. The unit remained in north Florida until the end of the war. In May 1865, the Kilcrease Light Artillery disbanded and its men paroled.
Summary:
The collection contains records of the Kilcrease Light Artillery, including a Company Descriptive Roll and a Morning Report Book. The Company Descriptive Roll lists the unit's commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men. The roll also contains registers of men transferred, discharged, died, and deserted. Entries in the book usually include name, age, height, complexion, eye color, hair color, town and state of birth, occupation, place and date of enlistment, name of enrolling officers, length of enlistment, and additional remarks.
The Morning Report Book documents the period from September 1863 to September 1864 through a detailed unit status account. Each day's entry includes the number of officers and men present for duty, sick, or special duty, in arrest, absent sick, absent with leave, absent without leave, and men on special service. There is also a remarks column with information on personnel changes, conditions of the battery's horses, etc. The First Sergeant and Company Commander signed the book each day.
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Kilcrease Light Artillery, C.S.A.
Civil War (Fla.) War Casualties (Statistics, etc.)
Military records. aat
Florida History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
for detailed listing.