The Kentucky 1st Artillery Battery, also known as Lyon's Artillery Battery, then later as Cobb's Artillery Battery, was organized from the conversion of Company F of the 3rd Kentucky Confederate Infantry to the Artillery Service at Bowling Green, Kentucky on September 20, 1861. It was armed with four (4) 6lb. smoothbores and two (2) 12lb howitzers when it went into action at Shiloh, Tennessee on April 6th 1862. Byrne's Mississippi and the Kentucky Battery were merged into Cobb's Battery in May, 1862 at Cornith, Mississippi. Grave's Mississippi and the Kentucky Battery were merged into Cobb's Battery at Murfreesboro, Tennessee in November, 1862. Cobb's Battery was armed with four (4) 12lb Napoleons from July 1863 through April 1, 1864. Green's Kentucky Battery, Humphrey's Arkansas Battery, and Co. B, 2nd Alabama Light Artillery Battalion were merged into Cobb's Battery in January, 1864. The Battery was surrendered by Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, Commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, at Citronelle, Alabama on May 4, 1865.

Authors Note: Cobb's Battery is named after Captain Robert L. Cobb.

For more information on the original Cobb's Battery and the Orphan Brigade check these sites by Geoff Walden and Laura Cook. Cobb's Battery & The Orphan Brigade

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The Battles that COBB'S BATTERY
Participated in:

SHILOH (APRIL 6-7, 1862)

VICKSBURG (MAY 18-JUL 27, 1862)

BATON ROUGE (AUG 5, 1862)

HARTSVILLE (DEC 7, 1862)

MURFREESBORO (D 31,62-J 3,1863)

JACKSON SIEGE (JULY 1863)

CHICKAMAUGA (SEPT 19-20, 1863)

CHATTANOOGA (NOV 23-25, 1863)

ATLANTA CAMPAIGN (MAY-SEPT, 1864)

ATLANTA SIEGE (JUL-SEPT, 1864)