McAllister's Battery
McClernand's Division
U.S.
Army of the Tennessee
McAllister's Battery
45th, 43rd, 49th, 17th, 20th, and 48th Illinois,
McClernand's (1st) Division.
This battery, reduced to two guns, and six regiments of Illinois infantry, in order from left to right as above, were engaged here, under command of Col. Marsh, from about 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. April 7, 1862. The command then advanced to Woolf Field.
Marker is on Cavalry Road ¾ mile west of Hamburg-Savannah Road, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
