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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Battery "D," 2nd Missouri Light Artillery.

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., January, 1862. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. Missouri, to March, 1863. District of Southeast Missouri, Dept. Missouri, to August, 1863. District of St. Louis, Mo., to September, 1863. Battery reorganized from Batteries "A," "F," "G" and "K" September 29, 1863. District of St. Louis, Mo., to December, 1863. Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, Army Arkansas, and 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to May, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, to February, 1865. Mouth of White River, Ark., to August, 1865. Dept. of Arkansas, to November, 1865.

SERVICE.—Duty at Cape Girardeau, Mo., till July, 1863. Operations against Marmaduke April 17-May 2. Cape Girardeau April 26. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., July, and duty there till September, 1863, At Bloomfield till December. Moved to Rolla via Pilot Knob December 1, 1863, thence march with 1st Nebraska Cavalry to Batesville, Ark. Duty at Batesville and Duvall's Bluff, Ark., till January, 1865. Near Batesville February 20, 1864. Pikeville May 25, 1864. Operations on White River June 20-29. Near Clarendon and St. Charles June 25-26, and pursuit to Bayou DeView June 26-28. Augusta September 2. Duty at Post of St. Charles January, 1865, to June, 1865, and at mouth of White River till August. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo. Duty in District of the Plains till November. Mustered out November 21, 1865.

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