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Battery G
In November it proceeded to Gauly Bridge, W. Va., and then returned to Point Pleasant and there embarked on transports for Cincinnati, reaching there November 21st, and on the 27th re-embarked for Memphis, and from thence to the Yazoo river, Miss.
It took part in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, December 28 and 29, losing 10 wounded, 2 of them mortally, with 8 horses killed or disabled. In January, 1863, the battery moved with the Union forces to Arkansas Post, and at the taking of that place was held in reserve. After the surrender of that post it proceeded to Young's Point, La., opposite Vicksburg.
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