2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery M

Battery M lost 5 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 16 to disease during the Civil War.

1862
	Organized at Chicago, Ill.
June 6	Mustered in
June 16	Left State for Martinsburg, Va.
June 24	Arrived Martinsburg. Attached to R. R. Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Dept.
August 24	Expedition to Darkesville
September 12	Moved to Harper's Ferry, Va.
September 12-15	Siege of Harper's Ferry
September 15	Surrendered
September 16	Paroled and moved to Annapolis, Md., then to Camp Douglass, Chicago, Ill.
	Operations in Western Theater for remainder of career