Simmond's Light Artillery Battery (U)

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Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Pendleton, Ohio, from Company "E," 1st Kentucky Infantry, June 3, 1861. Permanently detached January, 1862. Attached to District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division West Virginia, to September, 1862. 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862. District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio, to March, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. of West Virginia, to December, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division West Virginia, to April, 1864. Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division West Virginia, to July, 1864. Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division West Virginia, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Pendleton, Ohio, until July, 1861. Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., July 10. March from Mt. Pleasant to Charleston, W. Va., July 11-25. Action at Scarry Creek July 17. Tyler Mountain July 24. Capture of Charleston July 25. Advance to Gauley July 26-August 1. Moved to Camp Piatt, arriving August 25. Gauley Bridge August 28. Boone Court House September 1. Peytonia September 12. Moved to Raleigh September 20-27. Chapmansville September 25. Return to Gauley, arriving there October 10. Cotton Hill October 13.

Operations in Kanawha Valley October 19-November 16. Gauley Bridge October 23. Attack on Gauley by Floyd's Batteries November 1-9. Movement on Cotton Mountain and pursuit of Floyd November 1-18. Duty at Gauley Bridge until April, 1862. Advance on Princeton April 22-May 4. At Flat Top Mountain until August. Wolf Creek May 15. Moved to Washington, D.C., August 14-23.

Moved to Clarksburg, Suttonville, Summerville, Gauley Bridge and Kanawha Falls, W. Va., October 8-November 14, and duty there until April, 1863, and at Camp White, Charleston, W. Va., until July. At Gauley Bridge until September. At Camp Toland, Charleston, W. V., until January, 1864. Scout to Boone Court House October 21-22, 1863. Expedition from Charleston to Lewisburg November 3-13. Capture of Lewisburg November 7. At Fayetteville until April, 1864. Crook's Expedition against Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 2-19. Action at Cloyd's Mountain May 9. New River Bridge May 10. Hunter's Raid on Lynchburg May 26-July 1. Lexington June 11. Diamond Hill June 17. Lynchburg June 17-18. Buford's Gap June 20. Salem June 21. At Camp Piatt and Harper's Ferry until August, and at Camp Fuller, Va., until June, 1865. Mustered out July 20, 1865.

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Regiment Statistical Information

  • Battery lost during service 3 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 10 Enlisted men by disease. Total 13.

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