Existing comment:
1866-1919
In 1866 the battalion reorganized as the Washington Artillery Association (which still exists today) and served as a benevolent society until 1875. Reorganized as an independent military unit (19875), the company mastered into the Louisiana State National Guard as the Battalion Washington Artillery (1879). The Association erected a monument in Metairie Cemetery dedicated to the war dead (1880), and the next year the group bought the Southwestern Exhibition Building at St. Charles and Girod Streets for its arsenal-hall. The Battalion volunteered for service in the Spanish-American War (1898). Operating both independently and with the Louisiana National Guard during interim years of peace, the unit entered Federal service during the Mexican border conflict (1916) and during World War I in France as the 141st Field Artillery, assigned to the 39th Division (1917-19). |