1st Kentucky Artillery Battery

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
* Also referred to as:
** (Lyon's) Kentucky Artillery Battery
** (Cobb's) Kentucky Artillery Battery
* September 20, 1861 - Organized by conversion of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry / (I) Company F at Bowling Green, Kentucky
* April 6-7, 1862 - Shiloh
** Armed with four 6-lb. Smoothbores and two 12-lb. Howitzers
* May 1862 - (Byrne's) Kentucky and Mississippi Artillery Battery merged into this unit at Corinth, Mississippi
* May 8-July 27, 1862 - Vicksburg Bombardments
* August 5, 1862 - Baton Rouge
* December 7, 1862 - Hartsville
* November 1862 - (Graves') Kentucky and Mississippi Artillery Battery merged into this unit at Murfreesboro, Tennessee
* December 31, 1862-January 3, 1863 - Murfreesboro
* July 1863-April 1, 1864 - Armed with four 12-lb. Napoleons
* July 1863 - Siege of Jackson
* September 19-20, 1863 - Chickamauga
* September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
** November 23-25, 1863 - Chattanooga
* January 1864 - 3 other batteries merged into this battery:
** (Green's) Kentucky Artillery Battery
** (Humphreys') Arkansas Artillery Battery
** 2nd Alabama Light Artillery Battalion / Battery B
* May-September 1864 - Atlanta Campaign
** July-September 1864 - Siege of Atlanta 
* March 17-April 12, 1865 - Mobile
* May 4, 1865 - Surrendered by Lieutenant General Richard Taylor, commanding the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana at Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama
DESIGNATIONS
* September-October 1861 - Department #2 / Central Geographical Division of Kentucky
* October 1861-January 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Buckner's Division / Artillery
* January-February 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Bowen's Brigade
* February-March 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Reserve / Breckinridge's Brigade
* March-April 1862 - Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / Reserve Corps / Kentucky Brigade
* June-July 1862 - Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / Reserve Corps / Preston's Brigade
* July-August 1862 - Department #2 / Breckinridge's Command / Clark's Division / T.B. Smith's Brigade
* October-November 1862 - Department of Tennessee / Army of Middle Tennessee / Kentucky Brigade
* November-December 1862 - Army of Tennessee / 1st Corps / Breckinridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade
* December 1862-May 1863 - Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Breckinridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade
* May-July 1863 - Department of the West / Breckinridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade
* July 1863 - Department of the West / Breckinridge's Division / Artillery Battalion
* July-August 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Breckinridge's Division / Artillery Battalion
* August 1863-February 1864 - Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Breckinridge's Division / Artillery Battalion
* February-April 1864 - Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Artillery / Cobb's Battalion
* April-September 1864 - Army of Tennessee / 1st Corps / Artillery / Cobb's Battalion
* March-April 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / District of the Gulf / Artillery Reserves, etc. / Burnet's Command
* April-May 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Burnet's Command
== Regimental Roster ==
* First Commander: Hylan B. Lyon (Captain)
* Robert Cobb (Captain)
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* Davis, William C., The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home
* (Page 7)
* (Pages 5-6, 7, 9, 34)
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