Near Shiloh in Hardin County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery

Sherman's Division

— Army of the Tennessee —

Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Allen Gathman, March 18, 2011

1. Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Marker

Inscription. (front of monument)
Illinois
Battery "E",
1st Regiment Lt. Artillery,
5th Division--Sherman,
Army of the Tennessee.
(back of monument)
Waterhouse's Battery, "E".
Commanded by
1. Capt. A. C. Waterhouse, Wounded.
2. Lieut. A. E. Abbott, Wounded.
3. Lieut. John A. Fitch.

Two guns of this battery were advanced about 300 yards but soon fell back to this position where the whole battery went into action. This ground was held from 7.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m., April 6, 1862, when the battery lost two guns and moved back about 100 yards. Its loss in the battle was 1 man killed; 3 officers and 14 men wounded; total, 18. (Marker Number M37.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. A significant historical month for this entry is April 1932.

Location. 35° 7.929′ N, 88° 21.161′ W. Marker is near Shiloh, Tennessee, in Hardin County. It can be reached from Peabody Road ¼ mile east of Corinth Road, on the left when traveling east. 250 yards north of road, across Shiloh Creek and up the hill. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Shiloh TN 38376, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in West Tennessee.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Camp of Waterhouse's Battery (within shouting distance of this marker); 13th Tennessee Infantry

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(within shouting distance of this marker); Camp of 77th Ohio Infantry (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); 17th Illinois Infantry (about 700 feet away); The Bloody Sixth (about 700 feet away); Shiloh School (about 800 feet away); Mississippi Monument (approx. 0.2 miles away); Waterhouse's Battery (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Shiloh.

Photographed by Allen Gathman, March 18, 2011

2. Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Marker

Front.

Photographed by Allen Gathman, March 18, 2011

3. Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Marker

Back.

Photographed by Allen Gathman, March 18, 2011

4. Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Marker

Looking south.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on May 26, 2011, by Allen Gathman of Pocahontas, Missouri. This page has been viewed 884 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on May 26, 2011, by Allen Gathman of Pocahontas, Missouri. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.