(3-96) This position is in the tree line south of the parking area for Tour Stop 5 (Stockade Redan Attack). Site Marker: U.S. Battery B, 1st Illinois Light Artillery: 2d Div.: 15th Corps: Army of the Tennessee. Capt. Samuel E. Barrett: Lieut. Israel P. Rumsey. The battery served four 6-pounder guns and two 12-pounder howitzers in this position from the morning of May 22 to the evening of May 26, when it went with the force under command of Gen. Blair on the expedition to Mechanicsburg. The battery did not return to the investment line but was attached to Mower's Brigade and engaged at Richmond, Louisiana, June 15. It served two of its pieces by successive details on the  peninsula opposite Vicksburg from June 23 to the end of the siege, July 4, 1863. Aggregate reported casualties in battery during the campaign and siege: Killed 2, wounded 2, Total 4