1st Iowa Light Artillery Battery

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Burlington August 17, 1861, and duty there until December. Ordered to Benton Barracks, Mo.; thence to Rolla, Mo., and Joined General Curtis. Attached to 1st Brigade, Army of Southwest Missouri, to February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Army of Southwest Missouri, to May, 1862. Artillery, Ind. Division, Army of Southwest Missouri, to July, 1862. District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 11th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, December, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to April, 1864. Artillery, 4th Division, 15th Corps, to September, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, 15th Corps, to November, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Curtis' advance on Springfield, Mo., January 22-February 12, 1862. Pursuit of Price into Arkansas February 14-29. Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 6-8. March to Batesville, Ark., April 5-May 8; thence to Helena, Ark., May 25-July 14. Expedition from Helena to mouth of White River, August 6-8. Expedition from Helena to Eunice August 28-September 3. Expedition from Helena to Arkansas Post November 16-21, and to Grenada, Miss., November 27-December 7. Mitchell's Cross Roads December 1. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 22, 1862, to January 2, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28, 1862. Chickasaw Bluffs December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault on and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17-23, and duty there until April. Expedition to Greenville, Black Bayou and Deer Creek April 5-14. Demonstration on Haines and Drumgould's Bluffs April 29-May 2.

May 1, 1863 - Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi

Moved to join army in rear of Vicksburg, via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 2-14. Jackson, Miss., May 14.

May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
- May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
- May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.
Siege of Jackson July 10-17.
At Big Black until September 22.
September 26-November 20, 1863 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Chattanooga, Tennessee
Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29.
Cherokee Station October 21 and 29.
Cane Creek October 26.
Tuscumbia October 26-27.
November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign
- November 23-25, 1863 - Battles of Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Lookout Mountain November 23-24.
- Mission Ridge November 25.
- Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27.
Garrison duty in Alabama until April, 1864.
May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
- May 8-13, 1864 - Demonstration on Resaca, Georgia
  - May 13, 1864 - Combat at Resaca, Georgia
- May 14-May 15, 1864 - Battle of Resaca, Georgia
- Advance on Dallas May 18-25.
- May 25-June 5, 1864 - Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
- Operations about Marietta and Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
- Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
- Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
- Chattahoochie River July 6-17.
- Battle of Atlanta July 22.
- July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
- Ezra Chapel, Hood's second sortie, July 23.
- Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
- Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
- Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama October 1-26.
- Turkeytown, Ala., October 25.
Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and garrison duty there until July, 1865.
Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16, 1864 (Reserve).
Mustered out July 5, 1865.