Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery

Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery
Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery
	Bridges' Battery monument is the middle of the three pictured, at Orchard Knob, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
Active	14 Jan. 1863 – 21 Dec. 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union; Illinois
Branch	Union Army
Type	Field Artillery
Size	Artillery Battery
Equipment	2 × M1841 6-pounder field guns; 2 × M1841 12-pounder howitzers; 2 × 3-inch Ordnance rifles (Jun. 1863); 2 × 12-pounder Napoleons; 4 × 3-inch Ordnance rifles (Sep. 1863); 6 × 3-inch Ordnance rifles (May 1864)
Engagements	American Civil War Tullahoma campaign (1863); Battle of Chickamauga (1863); Battle of Missionary Ridge (1863); Knoxville campaign (1863); Battle of Rocky Face Ridge (1864); Battle of Resaca (1864); Battle of Adairsville (1864); Battle of Pickett's Mill (1864); Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (1864); Battle of Peachtree Creek (1864); Battle of Atlanta (1864); Battle of Jonesboro (1864); Battle of Franklin (1864); Battle of Nashville (1864); ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Lyman Bridges

Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery was an artillery battery from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Organized on 17 June 1861 as Company G, 19th Illinois Infantry Regiment, it was detached as an independent artillery battery on 14 January 1863. The battery fought in the Tullahoma campaign, at the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and in the Knoxville campaign in 1863. Bridges' Battery participated in the Atlanta campaign in 1864, fighting at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Adairsville, Pickett's Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, and Jonesboro. The unit fought at Franklin and Nashville shortly before it was renamed Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment on 21 December 1864. It spent the rest of the war with the Nashville garrison and was mustered out in July 1865.