1st Tennessee Light Artillery Battalion / Battery A (U)

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Memphis, Tenn., Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn., June 13, 1862, to October 16, 1863.

Attached to Post of Nashville, Dept. of the Ohio, August to December, 1862. Post of Clarksville, District of Western Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to April, 1863. Post of Clarksville, Tenn., District of Central Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army Ohio, June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to August, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, August, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Division, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Cumberland, to March, 1864. Garrison Decatur, Ala., District Northern Alabama, Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. Artillery, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. Artillery, 6th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to March, 1865. District Middle Tennessee to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Nashville and Clarksville, Tenn., until August, 1863. Siege of Nashville September 7-November 7, 1862. Operations against Scott's Forces in West Kentucky July 25-August 6, 1863. Near Winchester July 29. Irvine July 30. Lancaster, Stanford and Paint Lick Bridge July 30. Smith's Shoals, Cumberland River, August 1. Ordered to Murfreesboro, Tenn., August; thence to McMinnville September 5, and march to Chattanooga September 12-22. Garrison Artillery at Chattanooga until March, 1864.

• Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29, 1863.
• November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign
  • November 23-25, 1863 - Battles of Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Garrison Artillery at Decatur, Ala., March, 1864, to January, 1865.
  • October 1-2, 1864 - Skirmishes near Athens, Alabama

Siege of Decatur October 26-29. Ordered to Pulaski, Tenn., January 16, 1865. Duty at Pulaski and In Middle Tennessee on line of railroad until July. Mustered out July, 1865.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 667, 866, 1642)