Members of Company K, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, work their Parrott at the 2010 reenactment of the Battle of Pilot Knob at the Fort Davidson State Historic Site in Pilot Knob, Missouri.
Company K is the Turner Brigade’s large-gun battery. The battery fields a full-scale 10-pounder Parrott rifle.
With its large gun, Company K represents Turner artillery at national events, serving with guns of the Western Artillery Reserve, t Federal Division. Members of Company M joined Company K to serve on Company K’s gun at the 2012 and 2002 reenactments of the Battle of Shiloh, 2011 and 2000 reenactments of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, at the 1999 reenactment of the Battle of Chickamauga, and at the 150th and 135th Anniversary Reenactments of the Battle of Gettysburg in June 2013 and July 1998.
For an official history of the various units of the 1st Missouri Light Artillery during the War of the Rebellion, read the excerpt of Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri for the Year ending December 31, 1865.
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