Battery G, 1st Missouri Light Artillery was an artillery

Artillery

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

 battery

Artillery battery

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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. The battery was often referred to as Hescock's Battery.

Service

The regiment and its batteries were organized at St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

 from the 1st Missouri Infantry and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 1, 1861 under the command of Captain Henry Hescock.

The battery was attached to Army of the West and Department of the Missouri

Department of the Missouri

Department of the Missouri was a division of the United States Army that functioned through the American Civil War and the Indian Wars afterwards.-Civil War:...

, to March 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, Army of the Mississippi

Army of the Mississippi

Army of the Mississippi was the name given to two Union armies that operated around the Mississippi River, both with short existences, during the American Civil War.-1862:...

, to April 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, Army of the Mississippi, to June 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, Army of the Mississippi, to September 1862. Artillery, 11th Division, Army of the Ohio

Army of the Ohio

The Army of the Ohio was the name of two Union armies in the American Civil War. The first army became the Army of the Cumberland and the second army was created in 1863.-History:...

, September 1862. Artillery, 11th Division, III Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade. 3rd Division, Right Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland

Army of the Cumberland

The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater during the American Civil War. It was originally known as the Army of the Ohio.-History:...

, to January 1863. Artillery, 3rd Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863. Artillery. 2nd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864. Artillery Chattanooga, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to November 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Department of the Cumberland, to July 1865.

Battery G, 1st Missouri Light Artillery mustered out of service at Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga, Tennessee

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 on July 28, 1865.

Detailed service

Fremont's Campaign in Missouri October-November 1861. Ordered to Commerce, Mo., February 1862. Operations against New Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, Mississippi River, February 28-April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13–17. Moved to Hamburg Landing, Tenn., April 18–22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Actions at Farmington, Miss., May 3 and 9. Occupation of Corinth and pursuit to Booneville May 30-June 12 Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, August 26-September 4, thence to Louisville, Ky., September 12–19. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–16. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro until June. Expedition toward Columbia March 4–14. Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19–20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Battles of Chattanooga November 23–25. Post and garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., until July 1865.

Commanders

• Captain Henry Hescock
• Lieutenant Gustavus Schueler - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga

See also

• Missouri Civil War Union units
  Missouri Civil War Union Units
  -Long-Enlistment Infantry Regiments:*2nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry*3rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry*4th Missouri Volunteer Infantry "Schwarze Jäger"*5th Missouri Volunteer Infantry*6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry*7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry...
  
  
• Missouri in the Civil War
  Missouri in the Civil War
  In the Civil War, Missouri was a border state that sent men, armies, generals, and supplies to both opposing sides, had its star on both flags, had separate governments representing each side, and endured a neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war.By the end of the...