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Chicago Mercantile Independent Battery, Light Artillery
1862
1863 1864
1865
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Organized
at Chicago, IL and mustered in August 29, 1862 and were assigned to duty at Camp Douglass,
near Chicago till November 8 and then moved to Memphis, TN November 8 - 19. The Battery
lost during service two Officers and five Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
also lost 11 Enlisted men by disease for a total loss of 18 lives. They were stationed at
New Orleans, LA till June 1865 until ordered home to Chicago for mustering out on July 10,
1865. The chronology below shows their assignments, service, and engagements with
the enemy:
1862–Assignments and Service Top
Attached to 5th Division, District of Memphis, TN, 13th
Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, and to 2nd Division, District of
Memphis, TN 13th Army Corps, to December Grant’s Central Mississippi Campaign November and December "Tallahatchie March" November 24 to December 12 Artillery, 10th Division, Right Wing 13 Army Corps December 1862 Sherman’s Yazoo Expedition December 10 to January 2, 1863 Chickasaw Bayou December 26 – 28; Chickasaw Bluff December 29
1863–Assignments and Service Top
Artillery, 1st Division, Sherman’s Yazoo Expedition to January Expedition to Arkansas Post, AR January 2 – 10 Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post January 10 – 11 Moved to Young’s Point, LA January 17 and duty there till March and at
Milliken’s Bend, LA till April 25 Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25 – 30 Battles of Magnolia Hills, Port Gibson
May 1; Champion Hill May 16; Big Black River May 17 Siege of Vicksburg, MS May 18 to July 4; assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22 Advance on Jackson, MS July 5 – 10; siege of Jackson July 10 - 17 Artillery, 10th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the
Tennessee, to August Ordered to New Orleans, LA August 6, thence to Brashear City Western Louisiana Campaign October 3 to November 30 Camp at Franklin till December 19; moved to Algiers, LA Expedition to the Rio Grande, TX December 26 to January 1, 1864
1864
– Assignments and Service Top
At Pass Cavallo, TX till March; ordered to Berwick City, LA Red River Campaign March to April Artillery, 4th Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the
Gulf, to March Battle of Sabine Cross Roads April 8; Battery cut to pieces and guns captured;
retreat to Alexandria, thence to New Orleans, LA April 9 – 30 Artillery, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps to June Defenses of New Orleans, LA to July Duty at Camp Parapet, defenses of New Orleans till November; moved to Baton rouge
November 1 Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Gulf to November Davidson’s Expedition against Mobile & Ohio R.R. November 27 to December
12 Moved to New Orleans December 31, thence to Baton Rouge and duty there till May
1865
1865
– Assignments and Service Top
Artillery, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf to May Defenses of New Orleans, LA to July
Source: Regimental Histories, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
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