Organization
The battery was recruited and organized in Arkadelphia, Arkansas in May 1861, immediately following the outbreak of the war. Organized by Captain Franklin Roberts, a local watch maker and first commander of the unit, the battery was made up mostly of Clark County men, and was initially sent to the depot at Pitman's Ferry, near Pocahontas, Arkansas. Though he expected immediate deployment to operations in Kentucky, the depot's commander, Colonel Solon Borland, placed a hold on this artillery battery, opting to instead keep them at the depot to defend against a possible Union attack. It remained in this duty for two months, then was sent for service in Mississippi. The battery received little to no formal military training, learning about military movements, operations and strategy almost entirely through trial and error.
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