Named in honor of a father and son, John A. Inglis, a chairmen of the Secession Convention committee, and Captain William C. Inglis, the adjutant of the 8th SC Infantry who died of typhoid in Richmond on October 18, 1861, the Battery mustered into confederate service on March 20, 1862 at Darlington Court House, SC.
For two years earlier he had commanded the Darlington Guards until half of the company refused to follow the colonel of its current regiment, the 1st SC Infantry (6 Months) commanded by Colonel Maxcy Gregg refused to go to Virginia.
After, it was transferred to back to James Island in the First Military District, under the command of Brigadier General Roswell S. Ripley.
It was during the Second Battle of Charleston Harbor that the Inglis Light Artillery came to Fort Johnson on James Island, SC.
Here they helped repulse the federal attack on Charleston, along with the rest of the garrison, with ease.