Civil War Cogswells at Battle of Vicksburg, Miss.

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1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment, Battery M (Cogswell’s Battery) Monument located outside of Vicksburg National Military Park on former park property, on Sherman Ave. approximately .5 miles west of the junction with Standard Hill Road. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. William Sooy Smith’s 1st Division of Maj. Gen Cadwallader C. Washburn’s XVI Army Corps (Detachment) and was commanded by Lt. Henry G. Eddy. (Capt. William Cogswell commanded all 1st Illinois Light artillery.) {Refer to General William Sooy Smith of Illinois.

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