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Hughey's Battery
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Damon, I've never been able to ascertain the origins of Hughey's Arkansas Battery. I never thought about a connection between Shoup's and Hughey's batteries, but it's an interesting possibility.

William Mason Hughey was living in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, when the war began. He enrolled in a local mounted volunteer company very early in the war, but the company disbanded, and Hughey joined the "McCown Guards Artillery," commanded by Capt. Datus Whitaker Harris (or D. Whit Harris, as he was more commonly known), a company organized in Lafayette County, Arkansas, and eventually attached to the Tennessee Artillery Corps. Sometime in 1862, Hughey returned to Arkansas and, according to a Goodspeed biographical sketch, "An artillery company was raised and placed under his command, and he served under General Hindman in this capacity in the several engagements that took place in Arkansas following that date." If the postwar sketch is correct, it indicates that Hughey did not raise the battery himself, but, rather, one was raised for him. Whether this was a brand-new battery, or a reorganization of Shoup's old battery is not clear.

This would make a good research project. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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