3rd Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery
Regimental History and Service Record
Organized at Canton, Minerva and Massillon, Ohio, November 9, 1861, to March 15, 1862. Ordered to Pittsburg Landing. Tenn., March 15, 1862. Attached to 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862. 3rd Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to November, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. Garrison Fort Donelson, Tenn., 5th Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, to July, 1865.
SERVICE--
- April 6-7, 1862 -
Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Duty at Corinth until November. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. Reconnaissance to LaGrange November 8-9. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January, 1863, and duty there until February 21. Moved to Lake Providence, La., February 21, thence to Milliken's Bend, La. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1. (Reserve). Forty Hills, Hankinson's Ferry, May 3-4. Battle of Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Champion's Hill May 16.
- May 18-July 4, 1863 -
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Duty at Vicksburg until February, 1864.
- Expedition to Canton and Brownsville October 14-20, 1863.
- Bogue Chitto Creek October 17.
- February 3-March 2, 1864 -
Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Meridian, Mississippi
- Clinton, Miss., March 26.
- At Vicksburg until April 4.
- March to Huntsville, Ala., thence to Ackworth, Ga,, April 4-June 8.
- June 8-September 8, 1864 -
The Atlanta Campaign
- Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
- Bushy Mountain June 15-17.
- Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
- Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
- Chattahoochie River July 5-17.
- Howell's Ferry July 5.
- Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21.
- July 22, 1864 -
Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
- July 22-August 25, 1864 -
Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
- Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
- Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
- Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
- Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Hood September 29-November 3.
Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there and at Fort Donelson, Tenn., and vicinity as mounted Infantry until June, 1865. Ordered to Camp Taylor, Ohio, for muster out. Mustered out August 1, 1865.
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Regiment Statistical Information
- Battery lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 57 Enlisted men by disease. Total 58.
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Notes
Sources
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 703, 715, 779, 785, 846, 1488)