Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery was an
artillery battery
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that served in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War. It was also known as Huntington's Battery.
Service
The battery was organized at
Camp Dennison
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near
Cincinnati, Ohio, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on November 7, 1861, under
Captain
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James F. Huntington. The regiment was organized as early as 1860 under Ohio's militia laws, under
Colonel James Barnett.
The battery was attached to Landers' Division,
Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. Artillery, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks'
V Corps 5th Corps, Fifth Corps, or V Corps may refer to:
France
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, and Department of the Shenandoah to May 1862. Artillery, Shields' Division, Department of the Shenandoah, to June 1862.
Alexandria, Virginia, Military District of Washington, D.C., to October 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division,
III Corps 3rd Corps, Third Corps, III Corps, or 3rd Army Corps may refer to:
France
* 3rd Army Corps (France)
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* III Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of th ...
, 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,
II Corps 2nd Corps, Second Corps, or II Corps may refer to:
France
* 2nd Army Corps (France)
* II Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars
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, 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,
VI Corps 6 Corps, 6th Corps, Sixth Corps, or VI Corps may refer to:
France
* VI Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry formation of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars
* VI Corps (Grande Armée), a formation of the Imperial French army dur ...
, Army of the Potomac, to July 1864. Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to December 1864. Artillery Brigade, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March 1865. Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June 1865.
Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery mustered out of service at Camp Taylor in
Cleveland, Ohio
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on June 14, 1865.
Detailed service
Left
Ohio for
Parkersburg, Va., January 20, 1862. Moved from Parkersburg to
Paw Paw Tunnel January 1862, and duty there until March. Advance on
Winchester
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March 7–15. Action at
Strasburg March 19. Battle of Winchester March 23. Occupation of
Mt. 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., until 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
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, Va., December 12–15. At Falmouth until April 1863. "
Mud March" January 20–24. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6.
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1–5.
Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24.
Battle of Gettysburg July 1–3. Advance from the
Rappahannock
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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
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May 3-June 15, 1864.
Battles of the Wilderness May 5–7;
Spottsylvania May 8–21;
North Anna River
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May 23–27. Line of the
Pamunkey
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May 26–28.
Totopotomoy May 28–31.
Cold Harbor June 1–12. Before
Petersburg
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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.
Casualties
The battery lost a total of 32 men during service; 10 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 22 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
* Captain James F. Huntington
* Captain George W. Norton - commanded as lieutenant at the battles of Fredericksburg and Gettysburg
* Captain
Stephen Wallace Dorsey
* Lieutenant William A. Ewing - commanded at the Battle of the Wilderness
Notable members
* Captain Stephen W. Dorsey - U.S.
Senator
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from
Arkansas, 1873–1879
See also
*
List of Ohio Civil War units
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*
Ohio in the Civil War
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References
* Browne, Edward C. (et al.). ''Battery H, First Ohio Light Artillery: The James Barnett Papers - General James Barnett, Captain James Huntington, and Second Lieutenant William Pamelee, Jr.'' (Milford, OH: Little Miami Pub. Co.), 2009.
* Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
* Gladieux, Rolland J. & James Dennison Cook. ''Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery in Virginia, 1864-65'' (Eggertsville, NY: Buffalo Printing Co.), 1982.
* Ohio Roster Commission. ''Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission'' (Akron, OH: Werner Co.), 1886–1895.
* Reid, Whitelaw. ''Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers'' (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin), 1868.
;Attribution
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External links
Ohio in the Civil War: Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery by Larry StevensGuidon of Battery H, 1st Ohio Light ArtilleryAnother surviving guidon of Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery*
ttp://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?MarkerID=16811&Print=1 Battery marker on Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg
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