2nd Illinois Light Artillery Regiment

2nd Artillery Field & Staff
Non-Commissioned Staff
Unassigned Recruits
  
Adjutant General's Regiment History
Frederick Dyer's Regimental History

Battery A Active: May 23, 1861 - July 27, 1865 
Origin: Peoria County
Battery Nickname's: Bories' Battery, Peoria Light Artillery, Davidson's Battery.
Assigned to:
  • Army of the West: October 1861 - February 1862
  • Army of Southwest Missouri: February 1862 - July 1862
  • Army of the Tennessee: January 1863 - July 1863

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Prairie Grove, Pea Ridge, Operations against Vicksburg [Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Big Black River, Siege of Vicksburg], Fort Gaines, Fort Morgan

Battery B Active: June 20, 1861 (organized) - July 15, 1865 
Origin: Clark and Coles County
Battery Nickname's: Chapman's Peoria Independent and Light Artillery, Madison's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: April 1862 - July 1862

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Corinth

Battery C Active: August 5, 1861(organized) - August 3, 1865 
Origin: Alexander, Sangamon, & Cook counties
Battery Nickname's: Flood's Battery, Springfield Artillery

Garrison duty at Fort Donelson and Clarksville, Tenn.

Battery D Active: December 17, 1861 - November 21, 1864 
Origin: LaSalle County
Battery Nickname's: Cooper's Battery, McAllisters Battery, Plainfield Battery, 
Roger's Battery, Madison's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: April 1862 - July 1862

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

Battery E Active: August 20, 1861 - September 29, 1864 
Origin: St Clair County & St Louis
Battery Nickname's: Cram's Battery, Fitch's Battery, Waterhouse'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, Siege of Vicksburg]

Battery F Active: December 11, 1861 - July 27, 1865 
Origin: Missouri
Battery Nickname's: Powell's Battery, Richardson's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: April 1862 - July 1862

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Siege of Vicksburg], Meridian Campaign, Atlanta Campaign [Kenesaw Mountain, Battle of Atlanta, Jonesborough], Nashville

Battery G Active: December 31, 1861 - September 4, 1865 
Origin: De Kalb and Cook counties
Battery Nickname's: Lowell's Brigade, Stollbrand's Battery, Sparrestrom's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Tennessee: December 1862 - December 1863
  • Army of the Tennessee: December 1864 - February 1865

Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Siege of Vicksburg], Nashville, Fort Blakely

Battery H Active: December 31, 1861 - July 29, 1865 
Origin: Adams County
Battery Nickname's: Stenbeck's Battery, Whittemore's Battery
Assigned to:
  • Army of the Cumberland: June 1863 - October 1863


Duty at Fort Donelson and Clarksville, Tenn.

Battery I Active: December 31, 1861 - June 14, 1865 
Origin: Will County
Battery Nickname's: Barnet's Battery, Keith's Battery, Rich'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 - January 1863
  • Army of the Cumberland: January 1864 - April 1864

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

Battery K  Active: December 31, 1861 - July 14, 1865 
Origin: Morgan County
Battery Nickname's: Barber's Battery, Roger's Battery
Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Siege of Vicksburg]

Battery L  Active: February 28, 1862 - August 9, 1865 
Origin: Cook County
Battery Nickname's: Bolton's Battery, Hulaniski's Battery, Nichols' Battery
Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Operations against Vicksburg [Central Mississippi Campaign, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Siege of Vicksburg]

Battery M  Active: June 6, 1862 - April 11, 1864 
Origin: Cook and Winnebago counties
Battery Nickname's: Phillip's Battery
Battles/Campaigns Engaged in:
Siege of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (Captured and Paroled)

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