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Battery “H” 1st Ohio Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, Ohio, and mustered in November 7, 1861.

Left State for Parkersburg, W. Va., January 20, 1862.

Attached to Landers' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.

Artillery, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army [1486] Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah to May, 1862.

Artillery, Shields' Division, Dept. of the Shenandoah, to June, 1862.

Alexandria, Va., Military District of Washington, D. C., to October, 1862.

Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863.

1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1863.

3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to August, 1863.

4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1863.

Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1863.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to February, 1864.

2nd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1864.

3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July, 1864.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to December, 1864.

Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1865.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June, 1865.


Service.

Moved from Parkersburg, W. Va., to Paw Paw Tunnel January, 1862, and duty there till March.

Advance on Winchester March 7-15.

Action at Strasburg March 19.

Battle of Winchester March 23.

Occupation of Mount Jackson April 17.

March to Fredericksburg, Va., May 12-21, and return to Front Royal May 25-30.

Battle of Port Republic June 9.

Moved to Alexandria June 29 and duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., till October 17.

Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., October 17.

Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 17.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15.

At Falmouth till April, 1863.

“Mad March” January 20-24.

Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.

Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5.

Gettysburg (Pa.), Campaign June 11-July 24.

Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3.

Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-17.

Bristoe Campaign October 9-22.

Bristoe Station October 14.

Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8.

Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2.

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15, 1864.

Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-21; North Anna River May 23-27.

Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28.

Totopotomoy May 28-31.

Cold Harbor June 1-12.

Before Petersburg June 16-18.

Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.

Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad, June 22-23, 1864.

Fall of Petersburg April 2, 1865.

Ordered to Cleveland, Ohio, for muster out June 5.

Mustered out June 17, 1865.

Battery lost during service 10 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 22 Enlisted men by disease. Total 32.

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