6-25-21 What's in a Name

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An Illinois Battery Named four of five 24 pounder siege guns.

What was the Name of the Artillery Unit, and what are the names of the guns?

credit: @WJC
Wow. Looking at Illinois batteries involved in sieges, Cogswell’s Battery was involved in FIVE sieges: Corinth, Vicksburg, Jackson, Nashville, and Mobile.

Edit - Can't give you credit for a correct response, tony_gunter, but thanks for the information about some other Illinois batteries.

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1. Battery B, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery.
2. "Old Abe" after Lincoln, "Dick Yates" after Illinois Governor Richard Yates, "Sec. Hatch" after Illinois Secretary of State Ozias M. Hatch, and "J. K. Dubois", after Jesse K. Dubois, a prominent Illinois politician.
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Larry J. Daniel, Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), p. 106.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_"B",_2nd_Illinois_Light_Artillery_Regiment
 
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