Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Battery "A," 2nd Missouri Light Artillery.

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., January, 1862. Attached to District of St. Louis, Dept. Missouri, to November, 1862. District of Rolla, Dept. Missouri, to February, 1863. District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. Missouri, to September, 1863. Battery reorganized from Batteries "C" and "D" September 29, 1863. District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. Missouri, to December, 1864. Artillery, 3rd Division, Detachment, Army Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 3rd Sub-District, Middle Tennessee, Dept. Cumberland, to June, 1865. District of St. Louis to August, 1865.

SERVICE.—Garrison duty at Cape Girardeau, Mo., till June 11, 1864. Ordered to St. Louis, and duty there till September. Moved to Franklin, Mo., during Price's Raid. Moved to St. Louis, October 12, thence to Paducah, Ky., November 6, and to Nashville, Tenn. Garrison duty at Johnsonville, Tenn., January to June, 1865. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., and duty there till August. Mustered out August 24, 1865.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1317

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