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Monday, March 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, September 20, 1862

Went into battery on the banks of the Potomac. In the mean time the first brigade of the first division went across the river to reconnoitre, but were driven back by the rebels with considerable loss. Our battery, as well as the First Rhode Island and Battery D, shared in the fight. The One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers lost severely. When the rebels retreated across the Potomac, after the battle of Antietam, they left a number of pieces of artillery behind them, and also left in Sharpsburg a lot of their wounded. On picket at Sharpsburg, with our guns in battery, from Sept. 20 till Oct. 30, with the rebels on the other side of the Potomac. Gen. Porter's division was reviewed by Gen. McClellan and President Lincoln on the 3d of October.

SOURCE: John Lord Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267

Saturday, June 29, 2013

First Division, Army of the Tennessee: Historic Plaque, near Woolf Field, Shiloh National Military Park


U. S.
FIRST DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
MAJ. JOHN A. MccLERNAND

1ST BRIGADE,
COL. ABRAHAOM M. HARE, 11TH IOWA (W’D).

COL. MARCELLUS M. CROCKER, 13TH IOWA.
2ND BRIGADE,
COL. CARROLL MARSH, 20TH ILLINOIS
3RD BRIGADE,
COL. JULIUS RAITH, 43RD ILL. (MORTALLY W’D)

LT. COL. ENOS P. WOOD, 17TH ILLINOIS.
BATTERY ‘D’ 1ST ILL. LT. ARTY., CAPT. EDWARD McALLISTER, (W’D).
BATTERY ‘D’ 2D ILL. LT. ARTY., CAPT. JAMES P. TIMONY.
BATTERY ‘E’ 2D ILL. LT. ARTY., LIEUT. GEORGE L. NISPEL.
14TH BATTERY, OHIO LT. ARTY., CAPT. JEROME B. BURROWS, (W’D).
6 COMPANIES OF ILLINOIS CAVALRY.

This Division encamped here March 21, 1862; the 1st Brigade on the right, in Jones Field, the 2d in the center, its left on the Corinth Road; the 3d along the Hamburg Road south of Review Field.

During the battle on Sunday, April 6, 1862, the Division occupied seven positions on the field as follows: the first, by the 3d Brigade, east of Shiloh Church; the second, by the Division, along the Corinth Road; 9 A.M. to 11 A.M.; the third position, at right angles across the center of its 2d Brigade Camp, at 11:15 A.M.; the fourth position in Jones Field.  From its fourth position the Division advanced and at 12 M. recovered its 2d Brigade Camp and Division Headquarters.  It then fell back, fighting to Jones field again, and held this, its fifth position until 2:30 P.M. when it retired to its sixth position in Cavalry Field.  At 4:30 P.M. it occupied its 7th line, along the Hamburg and Savannah Road.

On Monday it was engaged in the camps of its First and Second Brigades.  The Division had present for duty, of all arms, officers and men, 6941.  It losses were 285 killed; 1372 wounded; 85 missing; total 1742.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Battery "D," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Cairo, Ill., and mustered in July 30, 1861. Ordered to Fort Holt, Ky., September 18, and duty there till February, 1862. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of West Tennessee, and 1st Division, Army Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Division, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. District of Jackson, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to November, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., to December, 1864. Garrison Artillery, Clarksville, Tenn. 5th Sub-District, District Middle Tennessee, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Operations against Fort Henry, Tenn., February 2-6, 1862. At Fort Henry February 6-12. Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 12-16. Moved to Savannanh, Tenn., March 5-13, thence to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 23-25. Battle at Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. March to Purdy and Jackson, Tenn., June 5-8, and duty in District of Jackson till November. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. At Memphis, Tenn., till February 20. Moved to Lake Providence, La., February 20-24, thence to Berry's Landing March 16, and to Milliken's Bend April 19. Advance on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1. Reserve, Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Occupation of Vicksburg July 4 to November 6. Stevenson's Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Bogue Chitto Creek October 17. Duty at Big Black till February, 1864. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 3. Moved to Cairo, Ill., April 28, thence to Clifton, Tenn., April 30-May 5, March to Huntsville, Ala., May 5-23, thence to Ackworth, Ga., via Decatur and Warrenton, Ala., and Rome and Kingston, Ga., May 28-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June S-September 8. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. 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 September 29-November 3. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till December. Battles of Nashville December 15-16. Ordered to Clarksville, Tenn., and duty there till July, 1865. Mustered out July 28, 1865.

Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 28 Enlisted men by disease. Total 36.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1036