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Battery “E,” 1st Illinois Regiment Light Artillery (Waterhouse's Battery).

Organized at Chicago, Ill., and mustered in December 19, 1861.

Moved to Cairo, Ill., February 13, 1862.

Attached to District of Cairo, Ill., to March, 1862.

Artillery, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862.

Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862.

Artillery, 5th Division, District [1037] of Memphis, Tenn., Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862.

Artillery, 1st Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862.

Artillery, 8th Division, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863.

Artillery, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to December, 1863.

Artillery, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1864.

Artillery, 1st Division, Sturgis' Expedition, June, 1864.

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864.

Artillery, 1st Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865.

Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Cumberland, Chattanooga, Tenn., to July, 1865.


Service.

Duty at Paducah, Ky., till March, 1862.

Expedition from Paducah to Tennessee River and operations about Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 8-14.

Expedition to Yellow Creek, Miss., and occupation of Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14-17.

Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7.

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

March to Memphis, Tenn., via Lagrange, Grand Junction and Holly Springs, June 1-July 21.

Duty at Memphis, Tenn., till November.

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

Guard R. R. till March, 1863.

Moved to Memphis, thence to Duckport, La., March 12-April 1.

Demonstrations on Haines' and Snyder's Bluffs April 25-May 2.

Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 2-14.

Jackson, Miss., May 14.

Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.

Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22.

Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4.

Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10.

Siege of Jackson July 10-17.

Brandon Station July 19.

Camp at Big Black till November.

Expedition to Canton October 14-20.

Bogue Chitto Creek October 17.

Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., November 12, and duty guarding Railroad till January, 1864.

Expedition to Tallahatchie River February 5-19.

Coldwater Ferry February 8.

Near Senatobia February 8-9.

Wyatt's February 14.

At Memphis till April.

Sturgis' Expedition from Memphis to Ripley, Miss., April 30-May 9.

Sturgis' Expedition from Memphis into Mississippi June 1-13.

Brice's, or Tishamingo Creek, near Guntown, June 10.

Smith's Expedition to Tupelo July 5-21.

Camargo's Cross Roads, Harrisburg, July 13.

Tupelo July 14-15.

Old Town, or Tishamingo Creek, July 15.

Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30.

Tallahatchie River August 7-9.

Oxford August 9.

Abbeville August 23.

Moved to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 1; thence march through Arkansas and Missouri. Light Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865.

Mustered out July 15, 1865.

Battery lost during service 5 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 25 Enlisted men by disease. Total 30.

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