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. Expedition to Grand Gulf
February 15-March 6. 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. 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 till
September. Transferred to 1st Missouri Light Artillery as Battery "E"
September 14, 1864 (which see).
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.
SOURCE: Frederick H.
Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1319-20
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