Organized at Jeffersonville and Indianapolis and mustered in
January 25, 1862. Left State for Louisville, Ky., January 25, 1862. Served
unattached, Army of the Ohio, to June, 1862. Reserve Artillery, Army of the
Ohio, to September, 1862. Post and Defences of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the
Ohio, to November, 1862, and Dept. of the Cumberland to July, 1865.
SERVICE. — Movement to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-March
6, 1862, thence march to Savannah, Tenn., March 20-April 7. Advance on and
siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama
and Middle Tennessee June to August. Assigned to duty as garrison at Fort
Negley, Defences of Nashville, Tenn., August 18, 1862, to July, 1865. Siege of
Nashville, Tenn., September 12-November 6, 1862. Repulse of attack on Nashville
by Breckenridge, Forest and Morgan November 5, 1862. One half of Battery
ordered to Chattanooga November, 1863, and participated in the battles of
Chattanooga November 23-25, 1863. Battle of Nashville December 15-16, 1864.
Non-Veterans mustered out December 23, 1864.
Battery mustered out July 7, 1865. Battery lost during
service 2 Officers and 22 Enlisted men by disease. Total 24.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1115
