The 1st Ohio Independent Battery lost 1 officer and 6 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 15 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Antietam .
1861 |
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Organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio |
August 6 |
Mustered in. Ordered to the Kanawha Valley. Va. Attached to Cox's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
August |
Retreat to Williamsport, Md.; then ordered to Martinsburg, W. Va., and duty there guarding stores attached to Artillery Brigade, West Virginia |
September 10 |
Action at Carnifex Ferry, Va. attached to Benham's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
September 15-23 |
Moved to Camp Anderson and Big Sewell Mountain |
October 6-9 |
Moved to Camp Anderson and attached to 1st Brigade, District of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
October 19 |
Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region |
November 16 |
Moved to Gauley and duty there |
1862 |
March |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, W. Va. |
April 22-May 1 |
Advance on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
May 11, 16 and 17 |
Princeton |
June-August |
At Flat Top Mountain |
August 15-24 |
Movement to Washington, D.C. and attached to 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Commanded by Captain James R. McMullin, the battery was equipped with six 14-pounder James Rifles. |
October 8 |
Moved to Clear Springs |
October 9-November 17 |
To Hancock and march to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va. via Clarksburg, Summerville, Gauley Bridge and Kanawha Falls. Duty at Kanawha Falls (Falls of the Great Kanawha) attached to 3rd Brigade, Kanawha Division, W. Va., Dept. of Ohio |
1863 |
March |
At Charleston attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
May 17-20 |
Fayetteville (Section) |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Scammon's Division, Army of West Virginia |
July 2-26 |
Operations against Morgan's Raid in Ohio |
Decmber |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, West Virginia |
December 8-25 |
Scammon's Demonstration from Kanawha Valley |
December 12 |
Lewisburg and Greenbrier River |
1864 |
April |
Attached to Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
May 3-19 |
Crook's Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
May 9 |
Battle of Cloyd's Mountain |
May 10 |
New River Bridge |
May 13 |
Salt Pond Gap, Pond Mountain Gap |
May 26-July 1 |
Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg |
June 11 |
Lexington |
June 17 |
Diamond Hill |
June 17-18 |
Lynchburg |
June 20 |
Buford's Gap |
June 21 |
Salem |
July 12-15 |
Moved to Shenandoah Valley |
July 19 |
Action at Bunker Hill |
July 20 |
Stephenson's Depot, Carter's Farm |
1865 |
March |
Moved to Harper's Ferry attached to Artillery Reserve Division, then to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city |
April |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, Hardins' Division, 22nd Army Corps, Defenses of Washington |
June 26 |
Mustered out |
