Battery " I " , 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery Battery " I " , 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The battery was organized at Camp Butler near Springfield , Illinois and mustered in for a three year enlistment on December 31 , 1861 under the command of Captain Charles W . Keith . The battery was attached to District of Cairo to February 1862 . Flotilla Brigade , Army of the Mississippi , to April 1862 . Artillery Division , Army of the Mississippi , to September 1862 . Artillery , 11th Division , Army of the Ohio , to October 1862 . Artillery , 11th Division , III Corps , Army of the Ohio , to November 1862 . Artillery , 4th Division , Center , XIV Corps , Army of the Cumberland , to January 1863 . Artillery , 4th Division , XIV Corps , to June 1863 . Artillery , 2nd Division , Reserve Corps , Department of the Cumberland , to October 1863 . Artillery , 2nd Division , XIV Corps , to January 1864 . Artillery , 1st Division , XI Corps , Army of the Cumberland , to April 1864 . Artillery , 2nd Division , XIV Corps , to July 1864 . Artillery Brigade , XIV Corps , to June 1865 . Battery " I " , 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery mustered out of service on June 14 , 1865 . Detailed service . Duty at Cairo , Ill . , until February 1862 . Operations against New Madrid February 28 - March 14 and against Island No . 10 March 15 - April 8 . Action at Island No . 10 March 15 – 16 . Action and capture at Tiptonville April 8 . Expedition to Fort Pillow , Tenn . , April 13 – 17 . Moved to Hamburg Landing , Tenn . , April 18 – 22 . Advance on and siege of Corinth , Miss . , April 29 - May 30 . Pursuit to Booneville May 31 - June 12 . Booneville June 3 – 4 . At Big Springs June 14 to July 22 . Moved to Iuka , Miss . , thence to Courtland , Ala . , and duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad until September . March to Nashville , Tenn . , September 3 – 12 . Siege of Nashville September 12 - November 7 . Repulse of Forest ' s attack November 5 . Duty at Nashville and Brentwood until June 1863 . Reconnaissance to Mill Creek November 27 , 1862 . Escort trains to Stones River January 2 – 3 , 1863 . Stones River January 3 – 5 . Tullahoma Campaign June 23 - July 7 . Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16 . Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River , and Chickamauga Campaign August 16 - September 22 . Battle of Chickamauga September 19 – 20 . Rossville Gap September 21 . Siege of Chattanooga , Tenn . , September 24 - November 23 . Battles of Chattanooga November 23 – 25 . Missionary Ridge November 24 – 25 . March to relief of Knoxville November 27 - December 8 . At Nashville and in Wauhatchie Valley , Tenn . , until April 1864 . Atlanta Campaign May 1 - September 8 , 1864 . Tunnel Hill May 6 – 7 . Rocky Faced Ridge May 8 – 11 . Buzzard ' s Roost Gap , or Mill Creek , May 8 – 9 . Battle of Resaca May 14 – 15 . Rome May 17 – 18 . Operations on Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas , New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25 - June 5 . Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10 - July 2 . Pine Hill June 11 – 14 . Lost Mountain June 15 – 17 . Assault on Kennesaw June 27 . Ruff ' s Station July 4 . Chattahoochie River July 5 – 17 . Peachtree Creek July 19 – 20 . Siege of Atlanta July 22 - August 25 . Utoy Creek August 5 – 7 . Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25 – 30 . Battle of Jonesboro August 31 - September 1 . Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama September 29 - November 3 . March to the sea November 15 - December 10 . Siege of Savannah December 10 – 21 . Campaign of the Carolinas January to April 1865 . Averysboro , N . C . , March 16 . Battle of Bentonville March 19 – 21 . Occupation of Goldsboro March 24 . Advance on Raleigh April 10 – 14 . Occupation of Raleigh April 14 . Bennett ' s House April 26 . Surrender of Johnston and his army . March to Washington , D . C . , via Richmond , Va . , April 29 - May 20 . Grand Review May 24 . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 15 men during service ; 1 officer and 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 10 enlisted men died of disease .