|
Battery
F left the state for Kentucky on March 3, 1862. After months of service
in Kentucky, the battery marched across the Cumberland Mountains to
Knoxville, Tennessee, in January 1864. In May 1864, Battery F joined
William T. Sherman’s Atlanta campaign. It fought at Resaca and
Keenesaw Mountain.
On
July 21, 1864, Battery F was credited with being the first Union battery
to throw shells into the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta. After the
fall of Atlanta, Battery F was sent back to Chattanooga, Tennessee,
where it remained until being posted to Nashville, Tennessee. Following
the mid-December Battle of Nashville, Battery F was sent to North
Carolina where it ended the war. It returned to Jackson, Michigan, where
it was mustered out of federal service on July 1, 1865.
|
