1st Missouri Field Battery
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The 1st Missouri Field Battery was a field artillery battery that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The battery was formed by Captain Westley F. Roberts in Arkansas
A 6-pounder smoothbore gun of the type issued to the battery
Mosby Monroe Parsons
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Brigadier-General Mosby Monroe Parsons was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. Parsons was murdered by Ca
1st Missouri Field Battery
…which it received a new set of cannons: two 10-pounder Parrott rifles and two 12-pounder howitzers. In early 1864, it became part of Brigadier General Mosby M. Parsons's division, which was ordered into Louisiana in April to counter a Union thrust up the Red River. While Parsons's infantry fought at the Battle of…
Parsons in uniform, c. 1861