4th Louisiana Field Battery

4th Louisiana Field Battery
Active	August 1862 – 2 June 1865
Country	Confederate States of America
Allegiance	Confederate States of America Louisiana
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Artillery
Size	Company
Equipment	4 guns
Engagements	American Civil War Red River campaign (1864) Destruction of Clara Bell (1864) Action at Sunnyside Landing (1864)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Archibald J. Cameron

The 4th Louisiana Field Battery was an artillery unit recruited from volunteers in Louisiana and Mississippi that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The 4-gun battery organized in August 1862 with recruits from Tensas Parish, Louisiana, and Jefferson County, Mississippi. The unit usually accompanied Isaac F. Harrison's 3rd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment and fought in several skirmishes in April 1863. The battery fought in the Red River campaign in 1864 but saw little action. On 24 July 1864, the battery helped destroy the Union river transport Clara Bell at Ashton Landing. On 27 July, it damaged two Union transports at Sunnyside Landing in Arkansas. The unit traveled to Marshall, Texas, in early 1865 to refit and was there when the war ended.[1]

See also

• List of Louisiana Confederate Civil War units
• Louisiana in the Civil War

Notes

1. Bergeron 1989, pp. 22–23.

References

• Bergeron, Arthur W. Jr. (1989). Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units 1861-1865. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2102-9.
• Boatner, Mark M. III (1959). The Civil War Dictionary. New York, N.Y.: David McKay Company Inc. ISBN 0-679-50013-8.
• Dimitry, John; Harrell, John M. (1899). Confederate Military History: Louisiana and Arkansas. Vol. 10. Atlanta, Ga.: Blue & Gray Press.