1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment
1st Artillery Field & Staff
Non-Commissioned Staff
Unassigned Recruits
  
Adjutant General's Regiment History
Frederick Dyer's Regimental History

Battery A 3 Months: Activated April 17, 1861 
3 Year: Active: July 16, 1861 - July 3, 1865 
Origin: Cook County
Battery Nickname's: Morgan's Battery, Smith's Battery,Wood's Battery, Willard's Battery, Chicago Light Artillery, Wilcox's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: March 1862 - July 1862
  • Army of the Tennessee: December 1862 - November 1864

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Ft Donelson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Chickasaw Bluff, Arkansas Post, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Siege of Vicksburg], Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Battle of Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, Jonesborough]

New Battery A* Active::
Origin: consolidated
[*Consolidated Company] Consolidated from Batteries A and B
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: July 23, 1864 - November 1864

Battery B* 3 Months: Activated May 2, 1861 
3 Year: Active: July 16, 1861 - July 2, 1865 
Origin: Cook County
Battery Nickname's: Chicago Light Artillery, Barrentt's Battery, Taylor's Battery,White's Battery, Bridges' Battery, Ramsey's Battery
[*Consolidated with old Company A, July 23, 1864]
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: February 1862 - July 1862
  • Army of the Tennessee: January 1863 - July 1864

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Belmont, Ft Donelson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Chickasaw Bluff, Arkansas Post, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Siege of Vicksburg], Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain]

New Battery B* Active: December 1864 - June 14, 1865
Origin: Cook County
[*Formerly "Bridge's Battery"]

Garrison artillery at Nashville, Tenn.

Battery C Active: July 16, 1861 - June 14, 1865 
Origin: LaSalle County
Battery Nickname's: Channel's Battery, Ottawa Light Artillery, Prescott's Battery, Houghtaling's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Mississippi: February 1862 - September 1862
  • Army of the Ohio: September 1862 - November 1862
  • Army of the Cumberland: November 1862 - October 1863

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
New Madrid/Island No. 10, Siege of Corinth, Stone's River (Murfreesboro), Tullahoma Campaign, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Buzzard's Roost Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Jonesborough], March to the Sea, Campaign of the Carolinas [Bentonville]

Battery D Active: July 30, 1861 - July 28, 1865 
Origin: Cook County & Indiana
Battery Nickname's: Cooper's Battery, McAllisters Battery, Plainfield Battery, Roger's Battery, Madison's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: February 1862 - July 1862
  • Army of the Tennessee: December 1862 - November 1864

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Ft Donelson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Siege of Vicksburg], Meridian Campaign, Atlanta Campaign [Kenesaw Mountain, Battle of Atlanta, Jonesborough], Nashville

Battery E Active: December 19, 1861 - June 1865 
Origin: Cook and Winnebago counties
Battery Nickname's: Cram's Battery, Fitch's Battery, Waterhouse's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: March 1862 - July 1862

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Siege of Vicksburg]

Battery F* Active: January 25, 1862 - March 7, 1865 
Origin: Lee & Morgan counties
Battery Nickname's: Burton's Battery, Cheney's Battery
[*The organization of Battery F discontinued, and the veterans and recruits assigned to other batteries-Special Field Order No. 47, Headquarters Department of the Cumberland, dated Nashville, Tenn., February 22, 1865.]
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: April 1862 - July 1862

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Siege of Vicksburg], Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Battle of Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, Jonesborough]

Battery G Active: September 28, 1861 - July 24, 1865 
Origin: Alexander & Cook counties
Battery Nickname's: Rombauer's Battery, O'Leary's Battery, Siege Artillery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Mississippi: March 1862 - July 1862

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
New Madrid/Island No. 10, Siege of Corinth, Corinth

Battery H Active: February 20, 1862 - June 14, 1865 
Origin: Cook County
Battery Nickname's: DeGress' Battery, Silversparre's Battery, Hart's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of The Tennessee: April 1862 - July 1862

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Champion's Hill, Siege of Vicksburg], Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Battle of Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, Jonesborough], March to the Sea, Campaign of the Carolinas [Bentonville]

Battery I Active: February 10, 1862 - July 26, 1865 
Origin: Cook & Kankakee counties & Michigan & Ohio
Battery Nickname's: Bouton's Battery, Cudney's Battery, Neeley's Battery, Independent Battery 7th
Assigned to:
  • Army of Tennessee: April 1862 - July 1862

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Siege of Vicksburg], Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Franklin, Nashville

Battery K* Active: January 9, 1862 - July 15, 1865 
Origin: Pope & Johnson counties
Battery Nickname's: Franklin's Battery, Smith's Battery
[*Consolidated with Battery E in pursuance of Special Field Order No. 39. Headquarters Department of the Cumberland, dated Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 14, 1865.]
Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Grierson's Raid]

New Battery K* Active:
Origin: Cook & DeWitt counties
[*Formerly Colvin's Battery]

Duty at CUmberland Gap and in District of East Tennessee

Battery L Active: February 22, 1862 - July 10, 1865 
Origin: Cook County
Battery Nickname's: Mulligan's Battery, Oconto Irish Guards, Rourke's Battery

Duty in Western Maryland and West Virginia

Battery M Active: August 12, 1862 - July 24, 1865 
Origin: Cook County
Battery Nickname's: Miller's Battery, Spencer's Battery, Cogswell's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Ohio: October 1862 - November 1862
  • Army of Kentucky: February 1863 - June 1863
  • Army of the Cumberland: June 1863 - July 1864

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Tullahoma Campaign, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Jonesborough]

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