The Civil War in the East

12th Ohio Independent Battery Light Artillery

 

The 12th Ohio Independent Battery lost 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded 17 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

July 27

Entered service as Company G, 25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

1862

March 17

Company permanently detached from 25th Ohio Infantry as 12th Ohio Battery. Attached to Milroy's Independent Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains

April 1-12

Expedition on the Seneca

April

At Staunton

May 8

Battle of McDowell

May 10-12

Franklin

June

Attached to Milroy's Independent Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of Virginia

June 8

Battle of Cross Keys

August 16-
September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 21-23

Fords of the Rappahannock

August 22

Freeman's Ford and Hazel Run

August 29

Battle of Groveton

August 30

Battle of Bull Run

September

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

December 12-16

Moved to Fredericksburg, Va.

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

January

Attached to Provost Guard, Army of the Potomac

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign, attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

May

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps

September 25-October 6

Moved to Bridgeport, Ala.

September

Garrison duty at Nashville, Tenn. attached to Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland

December

Attached to 2nd Division, Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Cumberland

1864

April

At Murfreesboro, Tenn., attached to Garrison Artillery, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland

July

Attached to 1st Brigade, Defenses Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland

December 5-12

Defense of Murfreesboro

December 7

Wilkinson's Pike

1865

July 12

Mustered out