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 till July 7, and at Luray till 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 till December. Manassas Gap November 5-6. March to
Fredericksburg, Va., December 10-16. Burnside's 2nd Campaign "Mud
March" January 20-24, 1863. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24.
Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. On line of the Rappahannock till September.
Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3. Reopening Tennessee River
October 26-29. Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold
Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23. Mission Ridge November
24-25. Garrison duty at Chattanooga till April 23, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign
May 1 to September 8, 1864. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Advance on Dallas May
18-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New
Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Pickett's Mills May 27.
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine
Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27; Ruff's
Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4; Chattanooga River July 5-17; Peach Tree
Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7.
Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August
31-September 1. Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., September, and garrison duty
there till June, 1865. Mustered out June 13, 1865.
Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 13 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 15 Enlisted men by disease. Total 29.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1486
