Organized by detachment from 2nd Ohio Cavalry at Fort Scott,
Kansas. August 27, 1862. First designated 3rd Kansas Independent Battery.
Organized as 25th Ohio Battery February 17, 1863. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st
Division, Army of the Frontier, October, 1862, to June, 1863. Artillery,
Cavalry Division, District Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to August,
1863. Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, Arkansas Expedition, to January, 1864.
Columbus, Ohio, to April, 1864. Artillery, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept.
of Arkansas, to May, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to
February, 1865. Artillery, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
Garrison Artillery, Little Rock, Ark., Dept. of Arkansas, to December, 1865.
SERVICE.--Blount's Campaign in Missouri and Arkansas
September 17-December 10, 1862. Expedition to Sarcoxie September 17-25.
Reconnoissance to Newtonia September 29-31. Action at Newtonia September 30.
Occupation of Newtonia October 4. Cane Hill November 29. Battle of Prairie
Grove, Ark., December 7. Expedition to Van Buren, Ark., December 27-29. March
over Ozark and Boston Mountains to Cane Creek, Mo., January 1-10, 1863. Moved
to Camp Solomon February 27. Campaign against Marmaduke March and April. Ordered
to Rolla, Mo., May 22 and refitting till June 26. Moved to Pilot Knob, Mo.,
June 26, and reported to General Davidson. Expedition against Price and
Marmaduke in Arkansas. March to Clarendon, Ark., on White River July 1-August
8. Grand Prairie August 17. Steele's Expedition against Little Rock August
18-September 10. Bayou Metoe or Reed's Bridge August 27. Bayou Fourche and
capture of Little Rock September 10. Duty at Little Rock till November. Ferry's
Ford October 7. Duty at Benton, Pine Bluff, and Little Rock till January, 1864.
Reconnoissance from Little Rock December 5-13, 1863. Reenlisted January 3,
1864. Moved to Columbus, Ohio, January 21-29. Return to Little Rock, Ark.,
March 17, and garrison duty there at Fort Steele till December, 1865. Mustered
out December 12. 1865.
Battery lost during service 23 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 23.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1494-5
