1st Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery

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Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, and mustered in August 6, 1861. Ordered to the Kanawha Valley. W. Va. Attached to Cox's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va., to September, 1861. Benham's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va., to October, 1861. 1st Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va., to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, W. Va., to August, 1862. 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862. 3rd Brigade, Kanawha Division, W. Va., Dept. of Ohio, to March, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Scammon's Division, Army of West Virginia, to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, West Virginia, to April, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, West Virginia, to August, 1864. Artillery Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to April, 1865. 3rd Brigade; Hardins' Division, 22nd Army Corps, Defenses of Washington, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Action at Carnifex Ferry, W. Va., September 10, 1861. Moved to Camp Anderson and Big Sewell Mountain September 15-23, thence to Camp Anderson October 6-9. Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19-November 16. Moved to Gauley and duty there until May, 1862. Advance on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad April 22-May 1. Princeton May 11, 16 and 17. At Flat Top Mountain until August. Movement to Washington, D.C., August 15-24.

Moved to Clear Springs October 8, thence to Hancock and march to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., October 9-November 17, via Clarksburg, Summerville, Gauley Bridge and Kanawha Falls. Duty at Kanawha Falls (Falls of the Great Kanawha) until March, 1863, and at Charleston until April, 1864. Fayetteville May 17-20, 1863 (Section).

Scammon's Demonstration from Kanawha Valley December 8-25. Lewisburg and Greenbrier River December 12, 1863.

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Crook's Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 3-19, 1864. Battle of Cloyd's Mountain May 9. New River Bridge May 10. Salt Pond Gap, Pond Mountain Gap, May 13. Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg May 26-July 1. Lexington June 11. Diamond Hill June 17. Lynchburg June 17-18. Buford's Gap June 20. Salem June 21. Moved to Shenandoah Valley July 12-15. Action at Bunker Hill July 19. Stephenson's Depot, Carter's Farm, July 20. Battle of Winchester July 24. Retreat to Williamsport, Md.; thence ordered to Martinsburg, W. Va., and duty there guarding stores until March, 1865. Moved to Harper's Ferry, thence to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city until June. Mustered out June 26, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

  • Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 6 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 15 Enlisted men by disease. Total 22.

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