Battery C, 1st Illinois Light Artillery

Battery C, 1st Illinois Light Artillery, armed with four 3-inch rifles and two 12-pounder howitzers and commanded by Captain Mark H. Prescott with 2d Lieutenant Joseph R. Channel and 2d Lieutenant Stephen G. Grubb, served in Bradley's Brigade, Sheridan's Division, McCook's Corps on September 19, 1863. Before daylight it retired with its brigade from the Viniard line to the ridge west of Widow Glenn's. About 10:30 a.m. it moved rapidly to this ground and came into battery in rear of General Davis' Division as that division advanced to the attack. General Davis' line was then compelled to give way under fierce enemy assaults, and Colonel Laiboldt's Brigade charged to the front, leaving the battery without orders. The battery fired 8 or 10 rounds, but the line in front became so badly broken and men came through the battery in such a confused mass that it was impossible to fire. It then retired to the next hill in rear of that position. On reaching the crest, the guns were brought into battery and fired 6 or 8 rounds. With no support and the enemy approaching, the battery retired through McFarland's Gap and rejoined the division at Rossville, where it bivouacked for the night. Its casualties were 4 men wounded, and it lost 12 horses, two 3-inch guns, one howitzer, three limbers, and one caisson.

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