Battery H, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery Regiment

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Battery H, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery Regiment
Active	January 1862 to November 20, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Artillery
Engagements	American Civil War Price's Raid Battle of Pilot Knob Battle of Little Blue River Battle of Westport Battle of Mine Creek Second Battle of Newtonia American Indian Wars Powder River Expedition Powder River Battles

Military unit

Battery H, 2nd Missouri Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and Plains Indian Wars.

Service

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., January, 1862. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. Missouri, to September, 1863. Transferred to New Battery "C" September 29. 1863. Reorganized at Springfield, Mo., December 4, 1863. Attached to District of Southwest Missouri, Dept. Missouri, to June, 1865. District of the Plains, Dept. Missouri, to November, 1865.

Detailed service

Duty in the District of St. Louis, Mo., till April, 1864. Expedition from New Madrid and skirmishes in swamps of Little River near Osceola and on Pemiscott Bayou April 5–9. Ordered to Cape Girardeau April 28. Actions at Ironton, Shutin Gap and Arcadia Valley September 26. Fort Davidson, Pilot Knob, September 26–27. Leesburg or Harrison September 28–29. March from Rolla to Jefferson City October 4–6. Defence of Jefferson City against Price's attack October 7–8. California, Boonville and Russellville October 9. Boonville October 9–12. Little Blue October 21. Big Blue, State Line, October 22. Westport October 23. Engagement at the Marmiton or Battle of Charlott October 25. Mine Creek, Little Osage River, Marias des Cygnes, October 25. Newtonia October 28. At Franklin till June, 1865. Moved to Omaha, Neb., June 11–20. Powder River Expedition. March to Powder River and Fort Connor July 1-September 20. Actions on Powder River September 2–3. Mustered out November 20, 1865.

Commanders

Captain William C. F. Montgomery

References

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

Missouri in the American Civil War

Origins

Combatants

Campaigns

Battles

1861	Boonville Cole Camp Carthage Battle of Dug Springs Athens Wilson's Creek Dry Wood Creek 1st Lexington Blue Mills Landing Fredericktown 1st Springfield Belmont Blackwater Creek Mount Zion Church
1862	Roan's Tan Yard New Madrid Moore's Mill Kirksville 1st Independence Lone Jack 1st Newtonia Island Mound Clark's Mill
1863	2nd Springfield Hartville Cape Girardeau Chalk Bluff
1864	Fort Davidson Sedalia Glasgow 2nd Lexington Little Blue 2nd Independence Big Blue Westport Marmiton River 2nd Newtonia

Involvement
(by city or town)

Leaders

Confederate	John S. Marmaduke Sterling Price Joseph O. Shelby
Union	Samuel R. Curtis Thomas Ewing Jr. Nathaniel Lyon

Aftermath

Monuments and memorials	Athens Carthage Fort Davidson Island Mound Lexington Newtonia First Newtonia Second Newtonia Wilson's Creek
Cemeteries	Confederate Home

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