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The men of Battery or Hewitt's Battery were recruited by Capt. Hewitt for infantry service, but as an artillery company was needed, it was drilled for that service, and was mustered as such by Gen. Thomas October 8, 1861. At that early period of the war it was under Gen. Thomas, and was used in the parts of the state about Somerset, Columbia and toward Cumberland river. Technically this unit was the Kentucky 3rd Artillery Regiment, Company B, but it was generally known as an independent Battery. The career of this battery was most useful and honorable, beginning with Gen. Thomas, when he was contending with Zollicoffer's forces in Eastern Kentucky, it faithfully obeyed every order and bravely discharged every duty it was called upon to perform for full three years of active field service. While the Battery was at Murfeesboro, the place was attacked by Forrest, and a part of the Federal forces, was captured. At this time Battery B lost two guns. The battery fired four hundred and ninety three rounds.
The "purpose in writing this book is to fill a perceived need for a comprehensive guide to available Civil War resources of genealogical value. To the best [of the author's] knowledge, no one has ever attempted to compile a descriptive inventory of the types of records available at both state and federal levels, as well as records available through such private organizations as the Latter Day Saints Genealogical Library, the American Genealogical Lending Library, and other private institutions. The goal is to provide sufficient information not only to alert the genealogist to the availability of the resource, but also to inform the researcher sufficiently of its content, its organization, and its coverage so that an informed decision can be made to either investigate, or to ignore, a particular lead"--Introduction