Showing posts with label BAT I 2nd MO LT ART. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Battery "I," 2nd Missouri Light Artillery.

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., January, 1862. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. Missouri, to September, 1863. Transferred to New Battery "C" September 29, 1863. Reorganized at Springfield, Mo., December 28, 1863. Attached to District Southwest Missouri, Dept. Missouri, to December, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division (Detachment), Army Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 3rd Sub-District, District Middle Tennessee, Dept. Cumberland, to June, 1865. District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept, Missouri, to August, 1865.

SERVICE.—Duty in the District of St. Louis till April, 1864. Expedition from New Madrid, Mo., and skirmishes in swamps of Little River near Osceola and on Pemiscott Bayou April 5-9, 1864. Duty in Southwest Missouri till October. Ordered to Paducah, Ky., November 10, thence to Nashville, Tenn. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Duty in District of Nashville till March, 1865, and in District of Middle Tennessee till June. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., and duty there till August. Mustered out August 23, 1865.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1318