Chicago Mercantile Independent Battery Light Artillery, Illinois
Dyer's Regimental History
 
Source - "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by 
Frederick H. Dyer
 
  
Chicago Mercantile Independent Battery Light Artillery

Organized at Chicago, Ill., and mustered in August 29, 1862. Duty at 
Camp Douglass, near Chicago, Ill., until November 8. Moved to Memphis, 
Tenn., November 8-11, 1862. Attached to 5th Division, District of 
Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, and to 
2nd Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps, to December, 
1862. Artillery, 10th Division, Right Wing 13 Army Corps, December, 
1862. Artillery, 1st Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 
1863. Artillery, 10th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, 
to August, 1863. Artillery, 4th Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the 
Gulf, to March, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, to June, 
1864. Defences of New Orleans, La., to July, 1864. Artillery Reserve, 
Dept. of the Gulf, to November, 1864. Artillery, Cavalry Division, Dept. 
of the Gulf, to May, 1865. Defences of New Orleans, La., to July, 1865. 

SERVICE - Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November and December, 
1862. "Tallahatchie March" November 24-December 12. Sherman's Yazoo 
Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 2, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou 
December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas 
Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman. 
Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17, 
and duty there until March, and at Milliken's Bend, La., until April 25. 
Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of 
Magnolia Hills, or Port Gibson, May 1. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. 
Big Black River Bridge May 17. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4. 
Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-
10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Ordered to New Orleans, La., August 6, 
thence to Brashear City. Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 
30. Camp at Franklin until December 19. Moved to Algiers, La. Expedition 
to the Rio Grande, Texas, December 26, 1863-January 1, 1864. At Pass 
Cavallo, Texas, until March. Ordered to Berwick City, La. Red River 
Campaign March-April. Battle of Sabine Cross Roads April 8. Battery cut 
to pieces and guns captured. Retreat to Alexandria, thence to New 
Orleans, La., April 9-30. Duty at Camp Parapet, Defences of New Orleans, 
until November. Moved to Baton Rouge November 1. Davidson's Expedition 
against Mobile & Ohio R. R. November 27-December 13. Moved to New 
Orleans December 31, thence to Baton Rouge, and duty there until May, 
1865. At New Orleans, La., until June, then ordered home for muster out. 
Mustered out at Chicago, Ill., July 10, 1865. 

Battery lost during service 2 Officers and 5 Enlisted men killed and 
mortally wounded and 11 Enlisted men by disease. Total 18.  

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