Recruites from Memphis

Transfers to Scott’s Battery

May 25, 1862

All of the men were members of Girardey’s Georgia Battery.

These men had enlisted in May 1861 in the First Confederate Infantry Regiment or the 36^th Georgia Infantry Regiment

and were transferred by Captain Isadore P. Girardey to his battery in December 1861 or January 1862.

This battery was stationed at Pensacola, Florida until ordered on March 10 to Corinth, Mississippi.

In the Battle of Shiloh the battery lost one gun and its caissons and had the rest of its guns disabled.

General Leonidas Polk ordered the battery broken up.

The following men were assigned to Scott’s Battery as privates unless noted otherwise:

Name	Age	Infantry Regiment	Date of transfer
W. F. Brown	31	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
H. Coppel		First Confederate	December 23, 1861
W. L. Dail*		First Confederate	December 23, 1861
J. Halbert*		First Confederate	December 23, 1861
Alphonsus D. Hardin		First Confederate	December 23, 1861
Joseph D. Hardin*	31	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
Marion E. Humphries	21	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
J. Lightner	24	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
J. Lundy	21	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
Edward Martin	24	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
Marcus P. Maxwell	27	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
Edward G. W. Moon	28	First Confederate	December 23, 1861
J. R. Brinkley	19	36^th Georgia	January 10, 1862
Patrick Jordan		36^th Georgia	January 10, 1862
William H. Martin		36^th Georgia	January 10, 1862
J. McGuire	25	36^th Georgia	January 10, 1862
James T. Nethercut	22	36^th Georgia	January 10, 1862
Edward Toland	38	36^th Georgia	January 10, 1862
J. Johnson	21		February 3, 1862
B. Rickerson	28		March 1, 1862
T. Rickerson	30		March 1, 1862

* Had the rank of corporal.
Sources: Compiled Confederate Service Records; National Archives, Record Group 109, M231, Rolls 10, 11, 14, 23, 30, 44; National Archives microfilm group 268 rolls 97–98; Historical Data Systems, comp., American Civil War Soldiers (ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid+1565). (accessed April 16, 2013). Whitham, George F. Shiloh, Shells and Artillery Units (Memphis, Tennessee: Riverside Press, 1980), 69–70.

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