Graves' Battery

[2] In December, at Bowling Green, Kentucky, then Confederate Army Brigadier General (CSA) John C. Breckinridge chose Captain Rice E. Graves, Jr., as captain of the new battery to be attached to the 2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment and assigned to his division.

[2] Major Graves led his battery at the Battle of Fort Donelson near Dover, Tennessee, where he was taken prisoner and his artillery confiscated when the Fort was surrendered by the Confederates to the Union Army forces commanded by then Brigadier General Ulysses S.

[5] Colonel, Later brigadier General, Roger Hanson and the 2d Kentucky prisoners were exchanged on August 5, 1862.

[7] Breckinridge's division was sent to Vicksburg too late to reinforce the Confederate garrison before they surrendered on July 4, 1863.

[9] Major Graves was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1864, and died by the next morning.