2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Guard R. R. till March, 1863. Moved to Memphis, thence to Duckport, La., March 12-April 1. Demonstrations on Haines' and Snyder's Bluffs April 25-May 2. Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 2–14. Jackson, Miss., May 14. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4–10. Siege of Jackson July 10–17. Brandon Station July 19. Camp at Big Black till November. Expedition to Canton October 14–20. Bogue Chitto Creek October 17. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., November 12, and duty guarding Railroad till January, 1864. Expedition to Tallahatchie River February 5–19. Coldwater Ferry February 8. Near Senatobia February 8–9. Wyatt's February 14. At Memphis till April. Sturgis' Expedition from Memphis to Ripley, Miss., April 30-May 9. Sturgis' Expedition from Memphis into Mississippi June 1–13. Brice's, or Tishamingo Creek, near Guntown, June 10. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo July 5–21. Camargo's Cross Roads, Harrisburg, July 13. Tupelo July 14–15. Old Town, or Tishamingo Creek, July 15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1–30. Tallahatchie River August 7–9. Oxford August 9. Abbeville August 23. Moved to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 1; thence march through Arkansas and Missouri. Light Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. Mustered out July 15, 1865. See also List of Illinois Civil War Units Illinois in the American Civil War Notes References The Civil War Archive Roster of personnel assigned to Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery (Note: not all ranks listed are correct as of the end of the war) Units and formations of the Union Army from Illinois Artillery units and formations of the American Civil War 1861 establishments in Illinois Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1865