Dresser's Battery

Battery D, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Dresser's Battery,

"D" 2d Ill. Lt. Art., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, with two guns, was engaged here from 11.30 A.M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862. It retired to left of siege guns.

Marker is on Sherman Road 0.1 miles south of Cavalry Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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