For my Great-Great Grandfather
William P. Moore
September 8, 1833 - April 11, 1912
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Battery D, 9th Battalion Georgia Light
Artillery
"Gwinnett Artillery"
Organized April 23, 1862
UNIT HISTORY |
| Organized April 23, 1862, by Captain
Tyler M. Peeples. Sent to Atlanta to guard government stores, awaiting the arrival of arms and equipment. |
| August 1862 With General Humphrey Marshall at Abingdon, Virginia. This served as the base of Marshall's command through most of 1862 and 1863. |
| December 30, 1862 Marched 28 miles to Saltville, Virginia to defend the works there. |
| September 19-20, 1863 Participated in the Battle of Chickamauga and protected a ridge near Chickamauga Creek with two, twelve pound Napoleon cannons, two twenty-four pound howitzers, and sixty-nine rounds of ammunition. (Army of Tennessee). |
| January-March 1864 With detachement of Army of Northern Virginia in Tennessee. |
| October 1864 Ordered to Richmond for heavy duty. |
| November 1864 - March 1865 With General Richard S. Ewell, in the Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg, Virginia. |
| April 9, 1865 Surrendered with General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. |
OFFICERS |
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| Captain - Tyler M. Peeples | 3rd Sergeant - Daniel A. Brooks | |
| Senior 1st Lieutenant - William J. Born | 4th Sergeant - Elsberry Holcomb | |
| Junior 1st Lieutenant - Thomas H. Loveless | 5th Sergeant - Lewis P. Jackson | |
| 2nd Lieutenant - John T. Clower | 1st Corporal - Stephen Ryle | |
| 3rd Lieutenant - Robert C. Montgomery, Jr. | 2nd Corporal - William W. Wilson | |
| 1st Sergeant - William A. Baxter | 3rd Corporal - Alonzo J. King | |
| 2nd Sergeant - George T. Moore | 4th Corporal - Andrew J. Abbott | |
PRIVATES |
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| Abbott, John L. Abbott, Mathew B. Adair, James W. Adair, John T. Adams, James W. Alexander, John M. Atkinson, John S. Bailey, W. F. Barber, Truman F. Barker, John R. Barker, Joseph G. Barton, Barton Baugh, Scott L. Benefield, John H. Bennett, James A. Bennett, Richard M. Benson, Shelton Betts, George W. Blake, Caleb A. Born, William W. Brogdon, Noah B. Brogdon, William R. Brooks, Francis M. Brooks, George W. Brooks, James C. Brooks, Jesse N. Brooks, Richard T. Brown, Andrew J. Brown, Morgan S. Cates, Daniel S. Chamblee, George L. Chamblee, Mathew W. Chesser, Benjamin F. Clark, Archibald Clark, Hiram Cox, Joseph W. Craig, James K. Craig, William T. Crumly, Samson Crumpton, James D. Davis, Van Davis, William J. H. Dollar, Nelson Doss, Green M. Duncan, Moses H. Durham, Willard I. Duveau, Pearson Edmondson, John T. Edmondson, LeRoy Edmondson, Meredith E. |
Ethridge, Robert F. S. Ewing, John Ewing, William E. Fields, R. Clinton Flowers, William F. Forister, William F. Fountain, Norton Frazier, George W. Frazier, Henry H. Green, Alford T. Green, Gaston Green, George W. Griswell, James F. Hart, Francis M. Hay, William B. Herrington, James I. Herrington, Jesse T. Herrington, William F. Hill, John Holcomb, Elijah S. Holcomb, Henry P. Holcomb, Mathew M. Hope, Joseph E. Horton, Charles W. D. Horton, George R. Horton, Jesse A. Hutchins, George H. Jackson, Charles M. Jackson, Henry M. Jackson, James F. Jackson, Mitchell H. James, Andrew J. James, John W. Johnson, John Johnson, William R. Johnson, William T. Kemp, Sanford M. Kennedy, Hugh A. Kircus, Patrick M. Kyle, Jasper L. Leggett, Martin Lockridge, Amon Lockridge, Francis M. Lockridge, Thomas N. Loveless, Francis M. Loveless, Levi J. Lowery, Edmond I. Lowery, Elyah M. Maddox, Daniel W. Maffett, Robert N. |
Mangum, William A. McClung, Henry C. McConnell, James Moore, William P. Morgan, Richard F. Moulder, Hugh B. Moulder, Singleton Murphy, John Neighbors, John Nicholson, W. B. Parks, William B. Payne, W. B. Payne, William Phillips, Richard N. Pirkle, Albert G. Pirkle, Andrew J. Pruett, David E. Pruett, Thomas Ragan, James Read, William C. T. Roberts, Tabner G. Robertson, Francis M. Robertson, James F. Robinson, LeRoy Samples, Anderson G. Segraves, William J. Sizemore, Ephram Smith, Andrew J. Smith, William G. Strickland, Hardy W. Sudderth, Allen R. Sudderth, James P. Sudderth, Joseph E. Sudderth, William H. Swafford, Moses Thompson, William D. Tinney, John Venable, Willis Verner, John L. Wellborn, Pierce M. Wheeler, Richard Whitly, George Wilkenson, John D. Williams, Sexton Williamson, Walton A. Wilson, James L. Wisdom, John L. Young, Christopher C. Young, David W. |