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Battery ā€œCā€ 1st Michigan Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 23 to December 17, 1861.

Mustered in November 28, 1861.

Left State for St. Louis, Mo., December 17, 1861, and duty there till February, 1862.

Ordered to Commerce, Mo.

Attached to Artillery Division, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862.

Artillery, 2nd Division, Army of Mississippi, to November, 1862.

1st Brigade, 8th Division, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862.

1st Brigade, 8th Division, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863.

4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to May, 1863.

3rd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tenn., 5th Division, 16th Army Corps, to November, 1863.

Fuller's Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1864.

Artillery, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to September, 1864.

Artillery, 1st Division, 27th Army Corps, to November, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 17th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

Service.

Siege of New Madrid, Mo., March 3-14, 1862.

Siege and capture of Island No.10, Mississippi River, March 15-April 8.

Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17.

Moved to Hamburg Landing, Tenn., April 17-22.

Action at Monterey April 29.

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.

Reconnoissance toward Corinth May 8.

Action at Farmington May 9.

Near Corinth May 24.

Occupation of Corinth May 30.

Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12.

Duty at Corinth till November.

Reconnoissance from Burnsville toward Iuka and action September 16.

Battle of Iuka September 19.

Battle of Corinth October 3-4.

Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12.

Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863.

Duty at Corinth till April, 1863.

Dodge's Expedition to Northern Alabama April 15-May 2.

Rock Cut, near Tuscumbia, April 22.

Tuscumbia April 23.

Town Creek April 28.

Moved to Memphis, Tenn., May 13, and duty there till October 18.

At Iuka, Miss., till November.

Moved to Prospect, Tenn., and duty there till March, 1864.

At Decatur, Ala., till May.

Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8.

Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13.

Sugar Valley, near Resaca, [1277] May 9.

Near Resaca May 13.

Battle of Resaca May 14-16.

Advance on Dallas May 18-25.

Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.

Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.

Assault on Kenesaw June 27.

Nickajack Creek July 2-5.

Ruff's Mills July 3-4.

Chattahoochie River July 5-17.

Sandtown July 6-7.

Decatur and battle of Atlanta July 22.

Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.

Duty at Marietta till October.

Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 3-26.

March to the sea November 15-December 10.

Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.

Fishburn's Plantation, near Lane's Bridge, Salkehatchie River, S. C., February 6.

Binnaker's Bridge February 9.

Orangeburg February 11-12.

Columbia February 16-17.

Cheraw February 28.

Fayetteville, N. C., March 11.

Battle of Bentonville March 19-21.

Occupation of Goldsboro March 24.

Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.

Occupation of Raleigh April 14.

Bennett's House April 26.

Surrender of Johnston and his army.

March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19.

Grand Review May 24.

Mustered out at Detroit, Michigan, June 22, 1865.

Battery lost during service 3 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 34 Enlisted men by disease. Total 37.

1908.

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