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Battery “F,” 2nd Illinois Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and mustered in December 11, 1861.

Attached to District of Cairo, Ill., Dept. of Missouri, to April, 1862.

Unattached, Army of the Tennessee, April, 1862.

Artillery, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862.

Artillery, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862.

Artillery, 3rd Division, Right Wing 13 Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862.

Artillery, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863.

Artillery, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to August, 1863.

Artillery, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to November, 1864.

Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., to March, 1865.

5th Subdistrict, District of Middle Tennessee, to July, 1865.

Service.

Duty at Cape Girardeau, Mo., as garrison of Forts “A” and “B” till March 14, 1862.

Ordered to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14.

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

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

Duty at Corinth till October.

（1 Section at Bolivar, Tenn., and present at Battle of Hatchie River October 5, 1862.)

Battle of Corinth, Miss., October 3-4.

Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12.

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

Reconnoissance from Lagrange November 8-9, 1862.

At Moscow and Memphis, Tenn., January 12 to February 6.

1863.

Moved to Lake Providence, La., February 6-10.

Duty there till April 22.

Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 22.

Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30.

Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.

Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22.

Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.

Siege of Jackson July 10-17.

Moved to Natchez, Miss., August 15.

Expedition from Natchez to Harrisonburg, La., September 1-7.

Near Harrisonburg and capture of Fort Beauregard September 4.

Duty at Natchez and Vicksburg till February, 1864.

Meridian Campaign February 2-March 3.

At Vicksburg till April.

Moved from Vicksburg to Cairo, Ill., thence to Clifton, Tenn., and march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Rome, Ga., April 28-June 8.

Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June 8 to September 8.

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

Assault on Kenesaw June 27.

Nickajack Creek July 2-5.

Chattahoochie River July 6-17.

Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21.

Battle of Atlanta July 22.

Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.

Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.

Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.

Lovejoy Station September 2-6.

Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.

Shadow Church and Westbrook's, near Fairburn, October 2.

Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., November, 1864, and duty there and in 5th Subdistrict, Middle Tennessee, till July, 1865.

Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16, 1864 (Reserve).

Mustered out July 27, 1865.

Battery lost during service 5 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 24 Enlisted men by disease. Total 29.

1908.

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