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U.S. 1st Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery;

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The U.S. 1st Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, part of the 9th Division, 13th Corps, Army of the Tennessee, was commanded by Lieut. Charles B. Kimball and Lieut. Oscar F. Nutting. The right section of the battery served two 20-pounder Parrott Rifles in this position from about June 7 to the end of the siege on July 4, 1863. Aggregate reported casualties in the battery during the campaign and siege were 8 wounded.
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