Capt. Graves’ Company, Issaquena Artillery
(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’)
Raised in Issaquena County, MS.
Capt. Rice E. Graves.
No further information in either Rowland or Howell. However, the Official Records of the War of Northern Aggression state that the Issaquena Battery was part of the Second Division, Central Army of Kentucky, at the Siege of Fort Donelson.
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