I’ve been getting a lot of hits on various posts in a series dealing with the confusion arising from the nickname of Battery E, 3rd US Artillery – Sherman’s Battery. I thought it might be helpful to set up a little page so anyone looking can find them all. Here are the links:
Sherman’s Battery, and Sherman’s Battery, Too, but not Really
This Battery Just Keeps Going, and Going, and Going…
Sherman’s Battery Had Some Kinda Juice!
Be sure to read the comments, and enjoy!
Harry Smeltzer
Bull Runnings 
[…] you caught Beauregard’s mention of Ayres’s (formerly Sherman’s) battery. It seems he was one of the few to get it […]
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[…] name had become to Confederate cavalry what Sherman’s Battery had become to Yankee artillery (see here), such that all rebel horsemen were referred to as the “The Black Horse Cavalry”. At First […]
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