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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Williams' Independent Battery Light Artillery.

Organized at Canton, Ohio, June 25, 1861, and mustered in at Camp Chase June 28. Attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade, Army of West Virginia. Operations on the Gauley and Kanawha Rivers, W. Va., to October, 1861. Affair at Scarry Creek July 17. Captured a gun and became a two gun Battery. Charlestown, W. Va, July 21. Gauley Bridge July 29. Hawk's Nest or Devil's Elbow, Little Sewell Mountain, August 18. Served three months and reenlisted for three months. Mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, November 6, 1861.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the 3, p. Rebellion, Part 1482