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Battery “C,” 1st Illinois Regiment Light Artillery (Houghtailing's Battery).

Organized at Ottawa, Ill., and mustered in October 31, 1861.

Ordered to Cairo, Ill.

Attached to Military District of Cairo to October, 1861.

3rd Brigade, District of Cairo, to February, 1862.

4th Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862.

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

Artillery 1st Division, Army of the Mississippi, to September, 1862.

Artillery, 13th Division, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.

Artillery, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863.

Artillery, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to July, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

Service.

Duty in the Military District of Cairo, Ill., till February, 1862.

Operations against New Madrid, Mo., and Island No.10, Mississippi River, February 28-April 8.

Action and capture at Tiptonville April 8.

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

Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 17-23.

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

Action at Farmington May 3.

Reconnoissance toward Corinth May 8.

Engagement at Farmington May 9.

Occupation of Corinth May 30, and pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12.

Reconnoissance toward Baldwyn June 3.

At Corinth till July 21.

Moved to Iuka, Miss., July 21, thence to Courtland, Ala., and duty along Memphis and Charleston R. R. till September 3.

March to Nashville, Tenn., September 3-12.

Action at Columbia September 9.

Siege of Nashville September 12-November 7.

Repulse of Forrest's attack on Edgefield November 5.

Lavergne November 7.

Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.

Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.

Duty at Murfreesboro till June.

Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign, June 23-July 7.

Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16.

Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga, Ga. Campaign August 16-September 22.

Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19-20.

Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23.

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.

Mission Ridge November 24-25.

At Rossville, Ga., till May, 1864.

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

Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.

Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9.

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.

Pine Hill June 11-14.

Lost Mountain June 15-17.

Assault on Kenesaw June 27.

Ruff's Station and Vining Station July 4.

Chattahoochie River July 6-17.

Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.

Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.

Utoy Creek August 5-7.

Flank movement on Jonesboro August gust 25-30.

Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.

Lovejoy Station September 2-6.

Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 1-26.

March to the sea November 15-December 10.

Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.

Battle of Bentonville, N. C., 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 20.

Grand Review May 24.

Moved to Louisville, Ky., June.

Mustered out June 14, 1865.

Battery lost during service 15 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 19 Enlisted men by disease. Total 34.

1908.

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