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693 Series I Volume XXXIV-II Serial 62 - Red River Campaign Part II

Page 693 Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

Ninety-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Prairie Grove, Van Buren, Vicksburg, Yazoo City, Brownsville.

Ninety-ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Hartville, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson, Fort Esperanza.

One hundred and fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg.

One hundred and twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Vicksburg, Jackson.

First Regiment Michigan Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery G: Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson, Fort Esperanza.

First Regiment Missouri Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery B: Camp Jackson, Carthage, Dug Spring, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Cape Girardeau, Chalk Bluff, Vicksburg.

First Regiment Missouri Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery E: Boonesville, Dug Spring, Wilson's Creek, Prairie Grove, Chalk Bluff, Vicksburg.

Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery E: Liberty, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Britton's Lane, Vicksburg, Jackson.

Sixteenth Ohio Battery: Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Vicksburg, Jackson.

Chicago Mercantile Battery: Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg, Jackson.

II. The following are the dates at which the above-named actions took place:

Camp Jackson, Mo., May 10, 1861; Booneville, Mo., June 17, 1861; Cartage, Mo., July 5, 1861: Rich Mountain, Va., July 12, 1861; Dug Spring, Mo., July 28, August 5, 1861; Wilson's Creek, Mo., August 10, 1861; Liberty, Mo., September 17, 1861; Blackwater, Mo., December 18, 1861; Middle Creek, Ky., January 10, 1862; Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 13, 14, 15, 1862; Sugar Creek, Ark., February 17, 1862; Pea Ridge, Ark., March 6, 7, 8, 1862; Pound Gap, Tenn., March 16, 1862; Shiloh, Tenn., April 6, 7, 1862; Siege of Corinth, May 1 until 29, 1862; Cumberland Gap, Tenn., June 18, 1862; Cotton Plant, Ark., July 7, 1862; Tazewell, Tenn., August 7, 1862; Richmond, Ky., August 30, 1862; Britton's Lane, Tenn., September 1, 1862; Prairie Grove, Ark., December 7, 1862; Elizabethtown, Ky., December 27, 1862; Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss., December 27, 28, 29, 1862; Van Buren, Ark., December 28, 1862; Arkansas Post, Ark., January 11, 1863; Hartville, Mo., January 11, 1863; Cape Girardeau, Mo., April 26, 1863; Chalk Bluff, Ark., April 30, 1863; Port Gibson, Miss., May 1, 1863; Champion's Hill, Miss., May 16, 1863; Black River, Miss., May 17, 1863; Vicksburg, Miss., invested May 18, 1863, assaulted May 19, 22, 1863, surrendered July 4, 1863; Milliken's Bend, La., June 7, 1863; Jackson, Miss., invested July 10, 1863, surrendered July 15, 1863; Yazoo City, Miss., July 13, 14, 1863; Sterling's Farm, ---- ----; Atchafalaya, La., September 7, 1863; Brownsville, Tex., November 7, 1863; Fort Esperanza, Tex., November 27, 28, 29, 30, 1863.

By command of Major General John A. McClernand:

SAMUEL CALDWELL,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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