Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Wade's Battery (i muri mai ko te Walsh's Battery, e mohiotia ana ko te 1st Light Battery) he paparanga patu patu i roto i te ope taua o te United States Army i te American Civil War. I whakauruhia te paparanga ki te ratonga Confederate i te Tihema 28, 1861; he maha nga mema o te paparanga i mahi i mua i te Kaitiaki o te Kawanatanga o Missouri. I whakawhiwhia ki te First Missouri Brigade, i kite te papahiko i te pakanga o Pea Ridge me te Pakanga Tuarua o Koriniti i te tau 1862. I te tau 1863, i whawhai te pū i te
Ko te Pakanga o Grand Gulf, i mate ai a Kapene William Wade, te rangatira tuatahi o te paparanga. I kite te papahiko i nga mahi i te Pakanga o Champion Hill, te Pakanga o Big Black River Bridge, me te Siege o Vicksburg. I te mutunga o te whakapae o Vicksburg, i te wa i tukua ai nga Confederates, ka noho nga tangata o te paparanga hei herehere o te pakanga. Whai muri i te whakawhitinga herehere, ka whakakotahihia nga tangata o te papahiko me te papahiko a Landis me te papahiko a Guibor i te Oketopa 3, 1863, a ka mutu te papahiko a Wade hei waahanga motuhake.