Battery "C," 1st Missouri Light Artillery.

Original Battery "C" disbanded September, 1861. Reorganized from Mann's Independent Battery Missouri Light Artillery August, 1862. Attached to Artillery, District of Memphis, Tenn., Dept. Tennessee, to September, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 4th Division, Left Wing 10th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. Artillery, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to November, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., Dept. Cumberland, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.—Duty at Memphis, Tenn., till September 6, 1862. March to Bolivar, Tenn., September 6-14, and duty there till October 4. Expedition from Bolivar to Grand Junction and LaGrange, and skirmishes, September 20-22. Battle of Metamora, Hatchie River, October 5. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign October 31, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Lake Providence, La., January 18, 1863, and duty there till April. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1 (Reserve). Battle of Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Champion's Hill May 16. Big Black River May 17. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. At Vicksburg till April, 1864. Expedition to Monroe, La., August 20-September 2, 1863. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864. Moved to Clifton, Tenn., thence march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Rome, Ga., April 21-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June 8-September 8. Assigned to duty at Allatoona, Marietta and Kenesaw Mountain till October. Operations against Hood till November. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till July, 1865. Mustered out July 11, 1865.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1314

Missouri State Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

UNION ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

2nd. Division 2nd. Brigade

13th. Mo. Col. Crafts Wright

14th. Mo. Birge Sharp Shooters

Col. B. Compton

1st. Mo. Light Artillery

Batty. D Capt. Henry Richardson

Batty. H Capt. Frederick Welker

Batty. K Capt George Stone

3rd. Division

1st. Brigade Col. Morgan Smith, 8th. Mo.

8th. Mo. Lt. Col. James Peckham

1st. Mo. Light Artillery

Batty. I Lt. Charles Thurber

4th. Division 1st. Mo. Light Artillery

Mann’s Battery C. Lt. Edward Brotzmann

6th. Division 1st. Brigade

Col. E. Peabody, Lt. Col. H. Woodyard

21st. Mo. Col. David Moore

24th. Mo. Lt. Col. Robert Vanhorn

2nd. Brigade Col. Madison Miller 18th. Mo.

18th. Mo. Lt. Col. Issac Pratt

Unattached Infantry 23rd. Mo.

Col. Jacob Tindall, Lt. Co. Quin Morton

CONFEDERATE ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI

Reserve Corps 2nd. Brigade

1st. Mo. Col. Lucius Rich

MISSOURI

[Inscribed on the back:]

IN MEMORY OF HER SONS WHO FOUGHT AND DIED TO PRESERVE THOSE FREEDOMS IN WHICH THEY BELIEVED

BATTLE OF SHILOH

APRIL 6TH AND 7TH 1862

4th Division, Army of the Tennessee Historic Plaque: Cloud Field, Shiloh National Military Park

U. S.

FOURTH DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,

BRIG. GEN. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT.

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1st Brigade,	Col. Nelson G. Williams, 3d Iowa, (W’d.)
	Col. Isaac C. Pugh, 41st Illinois.
2d Brigade,	Col. James C. Veatch 25th Indiana.
3d Brigade,	Brig. Gen. Jacob G. Lauman.
Mann’s Battery, (“C” 1st Mo. Lt. Arty.,) Lieut. Edward Brotzmann.
2nd Battery, Mich. Lt. Arty., Lieut. Cuthbert W. Laing.
13th Battery, Ohio Lt. Arty., Capt. John S. Myers.
1st and 2d Battalions, 5th Ohio Cavalry, Col. W. H. H. Taylor.

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This Division encamped here March 18th 1862; the 1st Brigade in front of Division headquarters; the 2d half a mile north; the 3d east along the Brown’s Ferry Road.

Sunday morning, April 6th, 1862, the 2d Brigade reinforced Gen. McClernand, near his headquarters, and served with him until 5 o’clock when it rejoined it’s division.  The 1st and 3d Brigades formed line of battle in the Peach Orchard and were engaged in that vicinity until 4 p.m. when they retired to the right of the siege guns.

On Monday the Division was engaged on the left of the Army of the Tennessee until about noon when its 2d Brigade moved to the left of Gen. McCook’s Division and was engaged in Review Field.

The Division had present for duty, of all arms, officers and men, 7825.

It lost 317 killed; 1441 wounded; 111 missing; total 1869.

Battery C, 1st Missouri Light Artillery: The Peach Orchard, Shiloh National Military Park

U. S.

MANN’S BATTERY

“C” 1^ST MO. LT. ARTY., HURLBUT’S (4^TH) DIV.,

ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.

This battery, of four guns, was engaged here from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 6, 1862

It left one disabled gun and two caissons here and retired to Wicker Field.