[1] It fought exclusively in the Western Theater and suffered among the highest casualties of Confederate batteries at the Battle of Stones River.

After South Carolina's secession, Byrne was determined to raise a battery of artillery for service in the Confederate Army.

He initially acquired four six-pound smoothbore field guns and two twelve-pound howitzers[1] from the Quniby and Robinson foundry firm in Memphis.

[3] He mounted his men on the finest horses (horses were in such abundance that he gave 30 of them to unmounted men of now famous Captain (later General) John Hunt Morgan's cavalry squadron) and gave them fine well-crafted carriages, caissons, limbers and other accoutrements he had special-ordered from another firm in Memphis.

Beauregard in South Carolina, but upon learning that Fort Sumter had already fallen, he decided to attach his battery to the organization now forming at Camp Boone that would later become famous as the Orphan Brigade.

This advance led to the capture of Bowling Green and the subsequent set-up of the later exiled Confederate Government of Kentucky.