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

Organized at White Pigeon, Michigan, September 17 to December 7, 1861.

Left State for Kentucky December 9, 1861.

Attached to 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862.

Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862.

Artillery, 3rd Division, Center 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.

Artillery, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863.

Artillery, 2nd Division, Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1864.

Garrison Artillery, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1864.

1st Brigade, Defenses of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865.

1st Brigade, 1st Subdistrict, District of Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to August, 1865.

Service.

Duty at Camp Dick Robinson and Somerset, Ky., till January, 1862.

Advance on Camp Hamilton, Ky., January 1-17.

Mill Springs, Fishing Creek, January 19.

Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 10-March 2.

March to Savannah, Tenn., March 20-April 8.

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

Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12.

Duty at Iuka, Miss., and Tuscumbia, Ala., till August.

March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26.

Pursuit of Bragg to Crab Orchard, Ky., October 1-15.

Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8.

March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there till December 26.

Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.

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

Duty at Murfreesboro till June.

Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 23-July 7.

Hoover's Gap June 24-26.

Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16.

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

Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21.

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

Battles of Chattanooga November 23-25.

Occupied Fort Negley and supported General Hooker's assault on Lookout Mountain November 24.

Mission Ridge November 25.

Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., December 5, and garrison duty there till March 30, 1864.

Moved to Murfreesboro March 30, and garrison duty at Fort Rosecrans till July, 1865.

Siege of Murfreesboro December 5-12, 1864.

Moved from Murfreesboro to Jackson, Michigan, July 15-22.

Mustered out August 3, 1865.

Battery lost during service 2 Enlisted men killed and 39 Enlisted men by disease. Total 41.

1908.

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