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

Colvin's Independent Battery Light Artillery

Organized October 6, 1863, from men detached from 107th Illinois 
Infantry, 33rd Kentucky Infantry and 22nd Indiana Battery. Attached to 
4th Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to November, 
1863. 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to April, 1864. 2nd 
Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 
4th Division, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to 
March, 1865. 

SERVICE - Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23, 1863. Near 
Maynardsville December 1. Walker's Ford December 2. Mossy Creek, Talbot 
Station, December 29. Operations about Dandridge January 16-17, 1864. 
Kimbrough's Cross Roads January 16. Dandridge January 17. Operations 
about Dandridge January 26-28. Near Fair Garden January 27. Garrison 
duty at Knoxville, Tenn., until March, 1865. Operations against 
Wheeler's Raid in East Tennessee August 15-25, 1864. Strawberry Plains 
August 24. Battery transferred to 1st Illinois Light Artillery as 
Battery "K" March 23, 1865. 

Battery lost during service 14 by disease.  

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