Battery D, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
McClernand's Division
(Front):Illinois
Battery "D"
1st Regiment Lt. Artillery
1st Division - McClernand
Army of the Tennessee
(Plaque on Back):McAllister's Battery "D"
commanded by
Capt. E. McAllister, wounded.
This battery of four 24 pounders went into action here about 9:00 a.m., April 6, 1863, holding this position until about 11:00 a.m., when it retired along the Corinth Road, leaving one gun. The battery had 1 officer and 3 men wounded.
Marker is on Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
