Overview

Battle Honors:

1862

New Bern                    March 14
Hanover Court House   May 27
Seven Days Battles     June 25 - July 1
Malvern Cliff                June 30
Malvern Hill                 July 1

1863

Washington, NC         February & March
Gettysburg                 July 1 - 3
Bristoe Station            October 14
Mine Run Campaign     November - December

1864

The Wilderness            May 5 & 6
Spotsylvania Ct House May 8 - 21
North Anna                  May 22 - 26
Cold Harbor                 Jun 1 - 3
Petersburg Siege         June - December

1865

Petersburg Siege January - March
Appomatox Ct House April 9

The splendid record of The Charlotte Artillery was made on the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Wherever the Army of Northern Virginia marched and fought, this battery was found sharing its privations, partaking of and aiding in its ever glorious achievements, and adding to the never-fading lustre won on all those memorable fields of glory by the soldiers of North Carolina. From their first engagement at New Bern to the final surrender of Lee at Appomattox, the guns of this battery were heard, and when the last of them was surrendered, officers and men could point with pride to a record second to none made by the artillerists of the Confederacy.

Organization

Company C, Tenth North Carolina State Troops, was organized at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 16, 1861, with the following commissioned officers: Thomas H. Brem, Captain; S. J. Lowry and W. P. Lewis, First Lieutenants; Joseph Graham and A. B. Williams, Second Lieutenants. Captain Brem was one of the most patriotic men of the State. At the beginning of the organization of the battery, the Confederate Government was short of funds for equipping troops, but this did not deter Captain Brem in the least. He advanced the money to fully equip the battery, besides uniforming and feeding the men and purchasing eighty head of horses. This outlay was afterwards refunded to him, but in a depreciated currency. The battery at its organization numbered about one hundred and ten men rank and file. The men were enlisted in the neighborhood of Charlotte and the upper portion of South Carolina. The material was excellent and the devotion of the men to the cause was fully sustained by their four years of hard service.

Affectionately known as The Charlotte Artillery, but over the duration of the war was known at different times as Brem's Battery, Graham's Battery, and William's Battery.

Armament

Armed with six guns from August 30, 1861 to March 14,1862. Armed with four 12-lb. Howitzers from June 26, 1862 to July 1, 1862. Armed with one 12-lb. Howitzer, three 3-inch Rifles, and two 6-lb. Smoothbores in February 1863. Armed with two 12-lb. Howitzers and two 12-lb. Napoleons July 1-3,1863. Armed with two 3-inch Rifles and one 10-lb. Parrott on April 9, 1864. Armed with two 3-inch Rifles, one 10-lb. Parrott, and one Whitworth rifle during May through September 1864. Armed with one 3-inch Rifle and two 12-lb. Napoleons on December 28,1864.

Assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia

Period in Time	Until Mid 1862	Until Fall 1862	Until Mid 1863	Until the End
Corps	Gen. Theophilus Holmes	Gen. D. H. Hill	Gen. D. H. Hill	Gen. Ambrose P. Hill
Division				Gen. William D. Pender
Brigade/Battalion	Gen. Lawrence O'B. Branch	Gen. Robert Ransom	Gen, Junius Daniel	Major William T. Poague
Commanding Officer	Cpt. Thomas H. Brem (Lincoln County)	Cpt. Joseph Graham (Craven County)	Cpt. Joseph Graham (Craven County)	Cpt. Arthur B. Williams (Wayne County)