Landis’ Missouri Battery
The battery was formed when Captain John C. Landis recruited men from the Missouri State Guard in late 1861 and early 1862. It may have been the last artillery battery to be formed in the United States before the end of the Civil War in 1865. It had a highest reported numerical strength of 62 men, and fielded two 12-pounder Napoleon field guns and two 24-pounders howitzers for much of its existence.
About Landis’ Missouri Battery in brief
Landis’s Missouri Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Confederate States Army during the early stages of the American Civil War. The battery was formed when Captain John C. Landis recruited men from the Missouri State Guard in late 1861 and early 1862. After initially serving in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, the unit was transferred east of the Mississippi River. It saw limited action in 1862 at the Battle of Iuka and at the Second Battle of Corinth. During the Siege of Vicksburg, the battery helped repulse Union assaults on May 22. It was captured on July 4, but the surviving men of the battery were exchanged, and the battery was absorbed into Guibor’s Missouri battery along with Wade’s MissouriBattery. The unit was disbanded on July 5, 1863. It may have been the last artillery battery to be formed in the United States before the end of the Civil War in 1865. It is the only artillery battery in the U.S. to have been named after a Confederate general. It had a highest reported numerical strength of 62 men, and fielded two 12-pounder Napoleon field guns and two 24-pounders howitzers for much of its existence, and had a total of 12,000 men in the battery. It has been named for Captain John Landis, who recruited the men for the unit in the late 1860s and early 1860s.
It also has been known as Landis’s Company, Missouri Light Artillery, Landis’s Company, and Landis “Landis”“Company,” and “Lands’ Company”, “Missouri Light Art artillery”. It lost its commander, Lieutenant John M. Langan, on June 15, 1863, at the battle of Boonville, Missouri. It later became known as ‘Lands’ Company,’ ‘Land’’ or “Land “” ‘‘”Lands ’, and ”Land” or ““Lans’.” It was disbanded in July 1863, after the Battle of Boon ville, which led to the capture of Colonel Franz Sigel by the Union Army. The last remaining members of the unit were captured on June 14, 1864, and later died in battle at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, on July 5, 1866. It remains the only Confederate artillery battery still in existence today. In the early 19th century, a large cultural divide developed between the Northern States and the Southern States over the issue of slavery. Many southerners decided that secession was the only way to preserve slavery, especially after abolitionist Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. On December 20, 1860, the state of South Carolina seceded and the states of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed suit in early 1861.
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