Guibor's Missouri Battery

Battery "A", 1st MO Lt. Artillery, CSA

Organized June 25, 1861

This silk battle flag of Guibor's Battery, sewn by Southern ladies of St. Louis, Mo. Presented to the battery in January 1863 at Vicksburg. When the battery surrendered at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, Chaplain Father Bannon gave the flag to a Catholic merchant for safe keeping. It was retrieved by Capt. Guibor after the war. (Note: On the original flag the crescent moon is actually white with "Guibor's Battery" scripted in gold lettering)

Engagements:

Carthage
Oak Hills
Dry Wood
Lexington
Elkhorn
Iuka
Corinth
Grand Gulf
Bayou Pierre
Baker's Creek
Big Black

Vicksburg
Resaca
Adairsville
Cassville
New Hope Church
Lost Mt.
Kennesaw Mt.
Smyrna Church
Peach Tree Creek
Franklin
Nashville

History:

This battery first served as a Missouri Volunteer Militia unit and was present at the capture of Camp Jackson (St. Louis, Mo.) on May 10, 1861. Later it served in the Missouri State Guard as part of the 6th Division. After the State of Missouri became the 12th State of the Confederacy, Guibor's Battery entered Confederate service in early 1862. It was soon combined with Montgomery Brown's Louisiana Battery on June 30, 1862. Guibor's Battery was armed with four 6-lb smoothbores that were surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. After parole, it became rearmed with four 12-1b Napoleons and served under Gen. Joseph Johnston until his command surrendered at Greensboro, NC on April 26, 1865.

Roster (incomplete)

Commander: Capt. Henry M. Guibor
Chaplain: Father John Bannon
Lieutenants: William P. Barlow, Montgomery Brown, Cornelius C. Heffernan, John M. Hennessey, Aaron W. Harris, Samuel Kennard, William Keller, Lawrence Murphy, Edward D. McBride
Sergeants: Lewis Allen, John Q. Baker, Raymond Burke, Wm. Ward Childs, John J. Corkery, Wm. Corkery, Maurice Daniels, Frank Froter, William Hays, Michael MacMahon, Ferdinand K. Michaud, William H. Robinson, Hunt P. Wilson, Edward T. Woods.
Corporals: William H. Douglas, J. Foley, Wallace H. Hartley, J. Layer, Daniel Noonan, William Perks.
Privates: O.N. Blakely, William Blessington, Richard James Brown, James Bybee, Frank A. Cafferata, John P. Cole, Edward C. Campbell, Timothy G. Callaghan, Price W. Campster, George Capott, Joseph Cott, Hohn P. Cole, J.P. Crumpecker, Patrick Coggins, Michael Collins, George H. Davis, Frank E. Dey, Peter Dolan, Edmond Dickerson, O.V. Dickerson, Thomas Dugan, Robert Caldwell Dunlop, Louis C. Duval, John Fell, James Fanning, Claiborne D. Ferguson, William Farmer, Malcolm Findley, John Wise, Fred Garlisch, Lawrence Gillespie, William Hicks, John Harney, William Hughes, John Hays, Monroe Joplin, Sam Lutzen, F.N. LaBruyere, William Lindsey, Thomas B. McIntire, Lewis Murphy, J.R. O'Reilly, Joseph C. Piggott, J.O. Pierce, Patrick Quinn, O.F. Simms, Frank Shields, James Shockley, Thomas Stubbs, F.G. Stoddart, James Terry, Ezekiel Taylor, J.J. Thompson, George W. Taylor, John Underwood, J.D. Trumbell, John Wharton, Robert Welsh, John Young.