1st Minnesota (Independent) Light Artillery Battery

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
Organized at Fort Snelling, Minn., November 21, 1861. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., and duty there until February, 1862. Moved to Cairo, Ill., thence to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. Attached to Buckland's Brigade, Sherman's 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862. 6th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. Artillery, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. Artillery, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. Artillery, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to October, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
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* April 2, 1862 - Expedition from Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee to Eastport, Mississippi and Chickasaw, Alabama Detachment)
* April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Duty at Corinth until October. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. At Moscow and Memphis, Tenn., to February 6, 1863. Moved to Lake Providence, La., February 6-10, and duty there until April 22. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. 
* May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
** May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
** May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
** July 4, 1863 - Surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi
Duty at Vicksburg until April, 1864. Veterans on furlough February 20 to April 17, 1864. Moved to Cairo, Ill., April 4-17. Moved to Clifton, Tenn., to Big Shanty, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala., and Kingston and Rome, Ga., April 28-June 9. 
* June 9-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
** Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. 
** Assault on Kenesaw June 27. 
** Nickajack Creek July 2-5. 
** Howell's Ferry July 5. 
** Chattahoochie River July 6-17. 
** Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21. 
** July 22, 1864 - Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
** July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
** Ezra Chapel, Hood's second sortie, July 28. 
** Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. 
** Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. 
** Lovejoy Station September 2-6. 
* Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Hood September 29-November 3. 
* November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
** Ball's Ferry and Georgia Central Railroad Bridge, Oconee River, November 23-25.
** December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia
* January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
** Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C., February 2-5. 
** South Edisto River February 9. 
** Orangeburg February 11-12. 
** About Columbia February 15-17. 
** Cheraw March 3. 
** Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21. 
** Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. 
** Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. 
** Bennett's House April 26. 
*** Surrender of Johnston and his army. 
* March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 30. 
* Grand Review May 24. 
* Moved to St. Paul, Minn., June 12, 
* Mustered out July 1, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
* Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 29 Enlisted men by disease. Total 38.
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 703, 715, 721, 723, 779, 834, 846, 1294-1295)
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