5th Battery Ohio Light Artillery Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

OHIO

5TH BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY
COMMANDED BY
CAPT. ANDREW HICKENLOOPER
PRENTISS’S (6TH) DIVISION
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

THIS BATTERY WENT INTO ACTION AT 7:30 A.M., APRIL 6, 1862 IN SPAIN FIELD. AT 9 A.M. IT RETIRED TO THIS PLACE WITH 4 GUNS AND WAS HOTLY ENGAGED UNTIL 4 P.M. WHEN IT RETIRED WITH 3 GUNS TO McARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, WHERE IT WAS ENGAGED IN LAST ENCOUNTER OF THE DAY.

ITS LOSS WAS 1 MAN KILLED: 1 OFFICER AND 18 MEN WOUNDED. TOTAL 20.

IT HAD 2 GUNS CAPTURED AND 1 DISABLED.