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

Organized at Ottawa, Ill., and mustered in November 12, 1861, as Company 
"A" Artillery, 53rd Illinois Infantry. Moved to Chicago, Ill., February 
28, 1862, and guard prisoners there until March 17. Detached as a 
Battery March 17, 1862, and ordered to St. Louis, Mo., March 23, thence 
embarked for Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 8. Attached to 3rd 
Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, 
District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, 
District of Memphis, Tenn., Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of 
the Tennessee, November, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, District of 
Memphis, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, 
17th Army Corps, to January, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 16th Army 
Corps, to July, 1863. Artillery, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, July, 
1863. Artillery, 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 
Artillery, 2nd Division, 17th Army Corps, to December, 1863. Artillery, 
3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1864. Artillery Reserve, 
Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to December, 1864. 1st 
Brigade, 1st Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the 
Cumberland, to February, 1865. Artillery Brigade, 16th Army Corps (New), 
Military Division West Mississippi, to August, 1865. 

SERVICE - Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30, 1862. 
March to Memphis, Tenn., June 1-14, and duty there until November. 
Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November-December. "Tallahatchie 
March" November 24-December 12. At Grand Junction January 9 to March 8, 
1863. At LaGrange until June 4. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., June 4, thence 
to Vicksburg, Miss., June 6-11. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 11-July 
4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. At 
Big Black until September 28. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence to 
Chattanooga, Tenn., September 28-November 23. Operations on Memphis & 
Charleston R. R. in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign 
November 23-27. Mission Ridge November 24-25. March to relief of 
Knoxville November 28-December 8. Garrison duty in Alabama until April, 
1864. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., April 29, and garrison duty there until 
December. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the 
Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Clifton, Tenn., and to 
Eastport, Miss. Duty at Eastport until February 5, 1865. Moved to New 
Orleans, La., February 5-22. Campaign against Mobile and its defences 
March 17-April 12. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 
8. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Occupation of Mobile 
April 12. March to Montgomery April 13-25, and duty there until July. 
Mustered out August 14, 1865. 

Battery lost during service 26 Enlisted men by disease.  

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