Battery "B", 1st Missouri Light Artillery - Vicksburg National Military Park
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N 32° 18.970 W 090° 52.773
15S E 699617 N 3577456
This marker identifies the location of a detachment of Battery "B" of 1st Missouri Light Artillery. This marker is located between a Shoney's and a Wendy's on Pemberton Square Boulevard.
Waymark Code: WMN7EB
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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From MO Commandery of MOLLUS:
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"BATTERY "B," 1st MO REGIMENT LIGHT ARTILLERY.

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., September 1, 1861. Attached to Dept. of Missouri to January, 1862. 2nd Brigade. Army Southwest Missouri, January, 1862. Disbanded January, 1862.

Battery reorganized from Weifley's Battery Missouri Light Artillery December, 1862. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, Army of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to March. 1863. Artillery, District of Southeast Missouri, to June, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Brigade, Herron's Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps. Army of the Tennessee, to August, 1863. and Army of the Gulf to June, 1864. Artillery, U. S. Forces, Texas, to July, 1864. Defences of New Orleans, La., to August, 1864. Reserve Artillery, Dept. of the Gulf, to September, 1864.

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., June 2-10. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 11-July 4."

Union Order of Battle fron Civil War Home:
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"Brig. Gen. WILLIAM W. ORME.

94th Illinois, Col. John McNulta.
19th Iowa, Lieut. Col. Daniel Kent.
20th Wisconsin, Col. Henry Bertram.
1st Missouri Light Artillery, Battery B, Capt. Martin Welfley."

Text of Marker:

U. S.
Battery B
1st Missouri Light Artillery;
Herron's Division; Army of the Tennessee.
Capt. Martin Wefley.
A Detachment of the battery served one 12-
pounder gun in this position from the morning of
June 17 to June 20, when the gun was moved to
another battery. One 12-pounder howitzer was
mounted in its place and served by the detach-
ment from June 21 to the end of the siege, July
4, 1863.
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: National Park Service

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union

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