Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery
Sherman's Division
(front of monument)
Illinois
Battery "E",
1st Regiment Lt. Artillery,
5th Division--Sherman,
Army of the Tennessee.
(back of monument)
Waterhouse's Battery, "E".
Commanded by
1. Capt. A. C. Waterhouse, Wounded.
2. Lieut. A. E. Abbott, Wounded.
3. Lieut. John A. Fitch.
Two guns of this battery were advanced about 300 yards but soon fell back to this position where the whole battery went into action. This ground was held from 7.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m., April 6, 1862, when the battery lost two guns and moved back about 100 yards. Its loss in the battle was 1 man killed; 3 officers and 14 men wounded; total, 18.
Marker can be reached from Peabody Road ¼ mile east of Corinth Road, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
