The battery originally organized with ninety-one members. Another nineteen recruits and reenlisting soldiers joined prior to April 1, 1862. Forty-three artillerymen from Capt. Walter O. Crain’s Tenn. command joined on April 22, 1862, followed two days later by a contingent of fifteen from Capt. Claude O. Gibson’s (La.) Artillery. These transfers further diluted the Alabama contingent, although fifteen of Captain Crain’s men came from Marion County, Ala. At the same time the battery’s allotment of 12-pounder Napoleons appears to have been increased from four to six guns, all manufactured by Leeds & Company of New Orleans.

Another 74 men joined the battery before the end of the war, a majority of these being dismounted cavalrymen.