Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery Regiment

Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery Regiment
Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery Regiment
	Nelson D. Cole commanded Battery E at Vicksburg.
Active	September 1861 – June 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union; Missouri
Branch	Union Army
Type	Artillery
Size	Artillery Battery
Nickname(s)	Cole's Battery
Equipment	4 x 10-pounder Parrott rifles and; 2 x 3.5-inch Blakely rifles
Engagements	American Civil War Frémont's campaign (1861); Battle of Prairie Grove (1862); Battle of Van Buren (1862); Battle of Cape Girardeau (1863); Battle of Chalk Bluff (1863); Siege of Vicksburg (1863); Expedition to Morganza (1863); Battle of Brownsville (1863); Battle of Fort Esperanza (1863); ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Nelson D. Cole; Joseph Foust

Battery E, 1st Missouri Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery unit from Missouri that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 1st Missouri Light Artillery Regiment formed on 1 September 1861. The battery participated in Frémont's expedition to Springfield in October 1861. This was followed by actions at Prairie Grove and Van Buren in December 1862. The following year, the battery fought at Cape Girardeau, Chalk Bluff, Vicksburg, the Expedition to Morganza, Brownsville, and Fort Esperanza. After performing garrison duty at Brownsville, Texas, the unit was mustered out in June 1864. For a few months at the end of 1864, a Pennsylvania battery took the name of this unit.