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Battery “B,” 1st Missouri Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., September 1, 1861.

Attached to Dept. of Missouri to January, 1862.

2nd Brigade, Army of the Southwest Missouri, January, 1862.

Disbanded January, 1862.

Battery reorganized from Welfley's Battery Missouri Light Artillery December, 1862.

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, Army of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to March, 1863.

Artillery, District of Southeast Missouri, to June, 1863.

Artillery, 2nd Brigade, Herron's Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1863.

Artillery, 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August, 1863, and Army of the Gulf to June, 1864.

Artillery, U. S. Forces, Texas, to July, 1864.

Defenses of New Orleans, La., to August, 1864.

Reserve Artillery, Dept. of the Gulf, to September, 1864.

Service.

Duty in Southeast Missouri till June, 1863.

Operations against Marmaduke April 17-May 2.

Cape Girardeau April 26.

Castor River, near Bloomfield, April 29.

Bloomfield April 30.

Chalk Bluffs, St. Francis River, April 30-May 1.

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., June 2-10.

Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 11-July 4.

Expedition to Yazoo City July 12-21.

Capture of Yazoo City July 14.

Moved to Port Hudson, La., July 23, thence to Carrollton, La., August 12-13, and duty there till September 5.

Expedition to Morganza September 5-October 11.

Atchafalaya River September 7.

Sterling's Plantation September 29.

At Morganza till October 11.

Moved to New Orleans, La., October 11.

Expedition to Brazos Santiago, Texas., October 27-December 2.

Expedition to Brownsville November 4-9.

Occupation of Brownsville November 6.

Duty at Brownsville till July, 1864.

Moved to New Orleans, La., July 24-August 7.

Reserve Artillery [1314] at New Orleans till September, 1864.

Consolidated with Batteries “A,” “F” and “G,” 1st Missouri Light Artillery, September 13, 1864.

1908.

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