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- BATTERY F
Battery F was organized at Cape Girardeau, Mo., by Captain John W. Powell, and was mustered in December 11, 1861.
On March 14, 1862, moved to Pittsburg Landing, with six 6-pdr. guns, and was assigned to Brigadier General W.H.L. Wallace's Brigade, Sixth Division.
On the morning of April 6, engaged the enemy near Shiloh Church. Lieutenant Bliss was injured at 9 A.M. by falling from his horse; Captain Powell lost an arm at 3 P.M., and the Battery fired its last shot at 6 P.M., having lost 2 guns and 27 horses.
Engaged in the siege of Corinth, June, 1862. One section, Lieutenant J.W. Mitchell commanding, was engaged in the battle of Corinth. October 3rd and 4th, 1862.
The Battery was engaged in the siege of Vicksburg: in a scout from Natchez to Liberty, La., in the Meridian Campaign; one section in the fight on the Hatchie.
Moved with Fourth Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, via Cairo, to Clifton, Tenn. Marched thence to Allatoona, GA. [He became ill on this march when near Huntsville, AL]
The Battery was engaged at Kenesaw Mountain. Was heavily engaged July 22, before Atlanta, losing 1 Lieutenant and 32 men, killed, wounded and missing. Engaged during the siege of Atlanta and Jonesboro, and was in the fight at Nashville, Tenn., December 15th and 16th, 1864.
Was in the Fourth Division, Seventeenth Corps, from the organization of that Division.
Ordered to Springfield for muster-out, July 9, 1865, and was mustered out July 27, 1865.
from: https://civilwar.illinoisgenweb.org/civilwar/history/a-002-lt.html
- Civil War Union Pension application:
Name Frederick Pott
Beneficiary's Name Hannah F S Pott
Event Type Pension
Event Date 1864
Affiliate Publication Number T288
Affiliate Publication Title General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
Service: Battery F, 2 nd Illinois Lignt Artillary
See https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Battery_F,_2nd_Illinois_Light_Artillery_Regiment
- Fred W Pott Biography - Goodspeed's 1888 History of Southeast Missouri pg 791 :
Fred W Pott, proprietor of the Planter's Mill at Cape Girardeau Mo., was born in Prussia in 1839. He is the eldest of seven children born to Frederick [middle name Adolph] and Joanna Pott. They came to America in 1854 locating at Cape the same year.
The father served three years in the Federal army, and near close of the war died from disease contracted while in the service. The mother has since resided with her children of whom there are four living.
Fred W. received a liberal education in the "fatherland" and soon after locating at Girardeau secured employment in a mill and followed the various departments of milling till the Civil War.
He then enlisted in the Federal army joining Second Illinois Light Artillery and on April 6 1862 was taken prisoner at Shiloh. After seven months imprisonment he was exchanged and rejoined regiment at Memphis, Tenn., and remained in the service until October when he returned to Cape Girardeau and resumed milling, which has since his occupation.
About 1869 he rented a mill at Clear Creek,Ill., almost opposite Cape Girardeau, which he operated for seven years and in 1877 built his present mill at a cost of about $14,000. His success with this mill has been phenomenal, which is due to his untiring energy, industry and superior knowledge of the business.
With only a capacity of eighty barrels at first he realized from his profits sufficient to pay for the mill in four years. The present capacity 200 barrels daily, and gives employment to ten men.
In 1866 Mr Pott united in marriage with Mary Karau, a native of Germany. They have eleven children - eight sons and three daughters - of whom three sons are dead. The family are members of the Lutheran Church.
- On 28 April 1864, Battery F left Vicksburg and traveled up the Mississippi River to Cairo. From there, the battery moved first to Clifton, Tennessee, then to Huntsville and Decatur, Alabama, and finally to Rome and Acworth, Georgia, which it reached on 8 June. From that date until 8 September, the unit took part in the Atlanta campaign. Battery F fought at the Battle of Marietta starting on 10 June and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on 27 June. There was more action at Nickjack Creek on 2–5 July, at the Chattahoochee River on 6–17 July, and at Bald Hill on 20–21 July.
fron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_F%2C_2nd_Illinois_Light_Artillery_Regiment#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDyer19081041-1
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1815 - 1864 (48 years)
