(II) 1st Missouri Light Artillery / Battery C (U)
Regimental History and Service Record
Reorganized from Mann's (Independent) Light Artillery Battery (U) August, 1862. Attached to Artillery, District of Memphis, Tenn., Dept. Tennessee, to September, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division, Left Wing 10th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. Artillery, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to November, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., Dept. Cumberland, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Memphis, Tenn., until September 6, 1862. March to Bolivar, Tenn., September 6-14, and duty there until October 4. Expedition from Bolivar to Grand Junction and LaGrange, and skirmishes, September 20-22. Battle of Metamora, Hatchie River, October 5. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign October 31, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Lake Providence, La., January 18, 1863, and duty there until April. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1 (Reserve). Battle of Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Champion's Hill May 16. Big Black River May 17.
- May 18-July 4, 1863 -
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
- May 19, 1863 -
Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
- May 22, 1863 -
Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4.
- July 4, 1863 -
Surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi
- May 19, 1863 -
- Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.
- At Vicksburg until April, 1864.
- Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2, 1863.
- Expedition to Canton October 14-20.
- February 3-March 2, 1864 -
Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Meridian, Mississippi
Moved to Clifton, Tenn., thence march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Rome, Ga., April 21-June 8.
- June 8-September 8, 1864 -
The Atlanta Campaign
- Assigned to duty at Allatoona, Marietta and Kenesaw Mountain until October.
- Operations against Hood until November.
- Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there until July, 1865.
- Mustered out July 11, 1865.
- July 22-August 25, 1864 -
Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
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- July 22-August 25, 1864 -
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Notes
- ↑ Not originally listed on unit homepage, likely not here
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 703, 715, 779, 785, 1314)