1st Ohio Light Artillery / Battery I

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Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, as a Company of Light Artillery, and engaged in guarding the fortifications and approaches to that city, back of Newport, Ky., Mr. Adams and Price's Hill October to December, 1861. Organized and mustered in as Battery "I" December 3, 1861. Left Cincinnati, Ohio, for Parkersburg, W. Va., January 26, 1862, thence moved to New Creek February 3. Attached to Milroy's Command, Cheat Mountain District, W. Va., to April, 1862. Milroy's Independent Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains, to June, 1862. Unattached, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863. Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to November, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to December, 1863. Garrison Artillery, Chattanooga, Tenn., Dept, of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to July, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 14th Army Corps, to September, 1864. Garrison Artillery, Chattanooga, Tenn., to March, 1865. 2nd Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Expedition to Moorefield, W. Va., February 11-16, 1862. Action at Moorefield February 12. Moved to Clarksburg, W. Va., thence to Beverly March 26. Joined Milrow at Monterey, Dinwiddle Gap, April 25. Shenandoah Mountain May 7. McDowell May 8. Franklin May 26. Strasburg June 1. Harrisonburg June 6. Cross Keys June 8. Port Republic June 9. Luray June 10. At Middletown until July 7, and at Luray until August. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2. Fords of the Rappahannock August 21-23. Freeman's Ford and Hazel Run August 22. Battles of Gainesville August 28. Groveton August 29. Bull Run August 30. Duty in the Defences of Washington and at Fairfax Court House until December. Manassas Gap November 5-6. March to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10-16. Burnside's 2nd Campaign "Mud March" January 20-24, 1863.

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Regiment Statistical Information

  • Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 13 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 15 Enlisted men by disease. Total 29.

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