8th Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion.

B. F. White, Captain, Company F, 8th Battalion Art. La./La. Arty., a card in his file notes, White, Captain, Pinkney Battalion, Subject: assigned to duty, S. O. 87, June 17, 1862, submitted resignation due to ill health June 18, 1862, Co. F, Pinkney Battalion Heavy Artillery, Vicksburg, Ms.

Note: The date 1862 is correct in both cases from the records

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Thomas N. McCrory, 1st Lieut./Captain, Company 3, 8th Battalion Louisiana H. Artillery, captured at Vicksburg July 4, 1863, paroled July 8

Note: 3rd Company is listed in all cards

M320: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Louisiana

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8th Battalion, Louisiana Heavy Artillery

8th Artillery Battalion was organized during the early spring of 1862 with men from the New Orleans area. Serving as heavy artillery and containing four companies, the unit was stationed at Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. Later it was ordered to Mississippi and attached to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Garrisoned at Vicksburg for more than a year, it was captured when the city fell in July, 1863. That December only 42 men were present, and they moved to Mobile. Here the battalion served at Forts Gaines and Morgan, and in August, 1864, most were captured. The unit no longer existed. Its commanders were Lieutenant Colonel William E. Pinkney and Major Frederick N. Ogden.
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