4th Battery Louisiana Field Artillery
"Cameron's Battery"
Living History Unit
The 4th Battery Louisiana Field Artillery was organized, raised and established by Captain Archibald Cameron with a commission received from the Confederate War Department in August of 1862 as a volunteer artillery unit know as the Cameron's Battery. The unit was made up mainly of men from the area of Northeast Louisiana.
The 4th Battery, in response to the abuses of the United States federal government against the People of Louisiana, quickly joined the Confederate service in defense of States Rights and Constitutional Liberty.
The 4th Battery fought bravely in its first action just days after organizing, when it fired upon Union gunboats on the Mississippi River above and west of the fortifications of Vicksburg, MS.
The 4th Battery served with distinction at battles all across the great state of Louisiana, from the assault on Grants forces as he was attempting his grand canal opposite Vicksburg to the engagements at Choctaw Bayou, Yellow Bayou, on the Red River with the Banks Expedition, in south Arkansas at Ashton Landing on the White River where it fired upon and destroyed the transport Clara Bell, and at Sunnyside Landing AR, where it damaged the transports Fairchild and B.J. Adams, part of the Federal Mississippi Marine Brigade and
The 4th Battery served in the Trans-Mississippi Department/Army of Western Louisiana, under the leadership of great Louisiana Generals Richard Taylor and Alfred Mouton.
The 4th Battery having become a formidable battery, fulfilled its duty well in defense of Louisiana and until its surrender near Marshall, Texas in June 1865, as the last organized battery in the Confederate Army.