2nd Illinois Light Artillery / Battery I

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Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in December 31, 1861. Moved to Cairo, Ill. Attached to District of Cairo to February, 1862. Flotilla Brigade, Affray of Mississippi, to April, 1862. Artillery Division, Army Mississippi, to September, 1862. Artillery, 11th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October, 1862. Artillery, 11th Division, 3rd Corps, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division, Centre 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. Artillery, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to January, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Cairo, Iii., until February, 1862. Operations against New Madrid February 28-March 14 and against Island No. 10 March 15-April 8. Action at Island No. 10 March 15-16. Action and capture at Tiptonville April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hamburg Landing, Tenn., April 18-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Booneville June 3-4. At Big Springs June 14 to July 22. Moved to Iuka, Miss., thence to Courtland, Ala., and duty along Memphis & Charleston R. R. until September. March to Nashville, Tenn., September 3-12. Siege of Nashville September 12-November 7.

Repulse of Forest's attack November 5. Duty at Nashville and Brentwood until June, 1863. Reconnoissance to Mill Creek November 27, 1862. Escort trains to Stone's River January 2-3, 1863. Stone's River January 3-5. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of Middle Tennessee until August 16.

  • August 16-September 22, 1863 - The Chickamauga Campaign[2]
  • September 24-October 27, 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign[3]
  • March to relief of Knoxville November 27-December 8.
  • At Nashville and in Wauhatchie Valley, Tenn., until April, 1864.
  • May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
    • Tunnel Hill May 6-7.
    • Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
    • Buzzard's Roost Gap, or Mill Creek, May 8-9.
    • Battle of Resaca May 14-15.
    • Rome May 17-18.
    • May 25-June 5, 1864 - Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
    • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
    • Pine Hill June 11-14.
    • Lost Mountain June 15-17.
    • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
    • Ruff's Station July 4.
    • Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
    • Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
    • July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
    • Utoy Creek August 5-7.
    • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
    • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
  • November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
  • January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
    • Averysboro, N. C., March 16.
    • Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.
    • Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.
    • Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.
    • Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
    • Bennett's House April 26.
      • Surrender of Johnston and his army.
  • March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
  • Grand Review May 24.
  • Mustered out June 14, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

  • Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 4 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 10 Enlisted men by disease. Total 15.

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Notes

  1. Not originally referenced on unit homepage
  2. Not originally referenced on Dyer summary but listed on unit homepage
  3. Not originally referenced on unit homepage

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