9th Arkansas Field Battery The 9th Arkansas Field Battery ( 1863 – 1865 ) was a Confederate Army artillery battery during the American Civil War . Also known as : Trigg ' s Arkansas Artillery Battery . This battery is distinguished from an earlier battery commanded by the same Captain John T . Trigg , which was also known as Trigg ' s Arkansas Battery , or Austin ' s Battery or the Austin Artillery and participated in the Battle of Shiloh . Trigg ' s earlier battery was disbanded in July 1862 . Organization . John T . Trigg commanded a battery in Hardee ' s Third Corps of the Army of Mississippi during the Battle of Shiloh . That battery was subsequently disbanded in July 1862 . Captain Trigg drops from sight until his name reappears in Special Orders No . 161 , District of Arkansas , dated from Arkadelphia on September 20 , 1863 , which ordered Captain Trigg , with his company to report to the commanding officer of Price ’ s Division . Exactly where and when this new company was formed is unclear from the records . A few days later , on October 11 , 1863 , Trigg requested and apparently was granted a furlough of four days . Arkansas capitol city , Little Rock , had fallen to Union forces on September 10 , 1862 . During the operations leading up to the fall of the capital , W . E . Woodruff , formerly of the Pulaski Light Artillery , had formed a temporary battery for the defence of Little Rock . The battery was under the command of Woodruff and 1st Lieutenant Anderson Mills “ of Trigg ’ s battery , on leave ” . Woodruff goes on to state “ Mills was first lieutenant of Trigg ’ s battery , so assigned from Marshall ’ s Battery . He was acting captain for the new battery from its inception until the surrender ” . It is assumed that the “ new battery ” refers to Trigg ’ s Battery . The Compiled Service Record for R . A . Mills ( Arkansas Miscellaneous ) has the note “ 1st Lieut Comdg 9th Ark Batty . Trigg ’ s Battery . ” It may be that the 9th Arkansas Field Battery was Trigg ' s in name only . Operations . On September 11 , 1864 , Brigadier General Churchill issued Special Order Number 72 from Camp Yell which mentioned Trigg ’ s Battery : In General E . Kirby Smith ’ s September 30 , 1864 report on the Organization of the Army of the Trans - Mississippi Department , Trigg ’ s Battery is listed as belonging to the 8th Mounted Artillery Battalion , along with Etter ' s 6th Arkansas Field Battery and Edgar ' s ( Texas ) battery . On November 19 , 1864 , General Smith ’ s issued Special Orders Number 290 from Shreveport , La . , which reorganized the Artillery of the Army of the Department of the Trans - Mississippi : Surrender . The Army of the Trans - Mississippi was surrendered by General Kirby Smith on May 26 , 1865 . The date of the military convention between Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith and Union General Edward Canby for the surrender of the troops and public property in the Trans - Mississippi Department was May 26 , 1865 , however , it took a while for parole commissioners to be appointed and for public property to be accounted for . As a result , a final report of field artillery which was part of the accounting process , was not completed until June 1 , 1865 . Unlike the other Arkansas batteries , Trigg ' s 9th Arkansas Field Battery is not listed in the final accounting of government property .