1st Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery

Monument located on Union Avenue at the second turn past Park Tour Stop #15. Also, iron tablets located on Indiana Avenue and in Maloney Circle west of the old railroad bridge along Old Hwy 27. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus' 9th Division, Maj. Gen'ls John A. McClernand's (relieved of command 19 June 1863) and Edward O.C. Ord's XIII Army Corps and commanded by Lt. Oscar F. Nutting. [Refer to pages 468, 471, 495, 574 and 584, Volume 2 of the WPA Monumentation Survey Books.]