Mississippi Marine Brigade / Walling's Battery (U)

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Philadelphia, Pa., as Battery "C," Segebarth's Pennsylvania Artillery, September 22 to December 27, 1862. Duty on the Mississippi River and other Western waters and at Vicksburg, Miss., participating in the following Duck River Island April 26, 1863. Beaver Dam Lake, near Austin, May 24; and near Austin May 28. Expedition from Young's Point, La., to Richmond, La., June 14-16. Richmond June 15. Grand Lake June 16. Expedition from Snyder's Bluff to Greenville June 29-30. Goodrich Landing June 30. Bayou Tensas June 30. Expedition from Goodrich Landing to Griffin's Landing, Catfish Point, Miss., October 24-November 10. Fayette November 22. Operations about Natchez, Miss., December 1-10. Rodney December 24. Port Gibson December 26. Grand Gulf January 16, 17, 18, 1864. Lake Village, Ark., February 10.

• February 15-March 6, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Grand Gulf, Mississippi
• Lima Landing February 22.
• Rodney March 4.
• Coleman's March 5.
• Red River Campaign March 10-May 22.
• Fort DeRussy March 14.
• Ashton May 1.
• Endorah Church May 9.
• May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi

Greenville May 20 and 27. Leland's Point May 27. Columbia June 2. Worthington's and Sunnyside Landings, Fish Bayou, June 5. Old River Lake (or Lake Chicot) June 6. Sunnyside Landing June 7. Duty at Vicksburg until September. Transferred to 1st Missouri Light Artillery as Battery "E" September 14, 1864.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• The Mississippi Marine Brigade lost during its service 11 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 161 Enlisted men by disease. Total 173.

Legacy

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 779, 785, 1319-1320)