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U.S. Battery H,

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi
· 1st Illinois Light Artillery;
Military
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Capt. Levi W. Hart's battery served four 20-pounder Parrott rifles from about May 27 and one 30-pounder Parrott rifle from about May 30 to about June 10 in this position, when the right section, under Lieut. Francis DeGress, was ordered to a battery on the left center of Steele's Division. The left section, under Lieut. Edward Adams, served its two 20-pounder Parrott rifles, one 30-pounder Parrott rifle, and one additional 30-pounder Parrott rifle from about June 23 to the end of the siege, July 4, 1863, in this position. Reported casualties in the battery during the campaign and siege were killed 1.
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