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First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery

This information comes from History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio, Williams Brothers, Philadelphia, 1878 page 54, 55, and 47.

Roster of Soldiers from Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio

Battery C.

This battery enlisted September 9, 1861; was discharged June 15, 1865, and re-enlisted.

1st lieutenant Jno. H. Miller.
1st sergeant E.A. Osborn.
1st sergeant Alf. Gould, discharged with battery.
1st sergeant C.I. Payne,
1st sergeant H.C. Holt.
1st sergeant Thomas King, Jr., promoted 1st lieut., disch. with battery.
Corporal Jno. Roe, mustered out at expiration of service, Oct. 7, 1864.
Corporal A.G. Austin
Corporal O. Atkin.
Corporal Ed. Herriman, mustered out at expiraton of service, October 7, 1864.
Corporal E.S. Gurney.
Corporal O.S. Eaton.
Corporal H. Dingman.
Bugler J. Markt.
Bugler W. Bidwell, discharged with battery.
J.Q. Adams, discharged with battery.
R.H. Allen, discharged with battery.
N. Amidon.
A. Austin, discharged with battery.
J. Austin, promoted corporal; discharged with battery.
B. Ames.
G.I. Bell, discharged with battery.
S.N. Billings
A.E. Benton
F. Brown, discharged with battery.
O.E. Church.
J.O. Cottrell, promoted quartermaster-sergeant; disch. with battery.
S.M. Childs, discharged with battery.
H.C. Cottrell, discharged with battery.
Geo. Corbett.
M. Como, discharged with battery.
Corporal W.B. Dow, discharged to accept commission in 177th Ohio Inf; no date.
Jas. Davis.
M.J. Ford, discharged with battery.
R. Foote
O. Foster, recruit of 1863; discharged with battery.
H.C. Gurney, died of wounds; no date.
C., Gaines
F.T. Halcomb
C. Hoskins
O.H. Haskell
W.H. Hulburt.
S.W. Hickok, discharged with battery.
L. Hettinger
W.G. Harris
R. King
C.M. Lyman, discharged with battery.
J.C. Linderman, discharged with battery.
O.W. Lewis, promoted to corporal, March 1, 1865; discharged with battery.
J. La Don, discharged with battery.
M.O. Mallory
W.H.H.Mallory
J.F. Morley, discharged with battery.
J. McKee
J. Menser
J.R. Millard, discharged with battery.
C.D. Martindale, discharged with battery.
H. Merritt
F. Morgan
H. Norton, discharged October 7, 1864.
H. Olds, discharged with battery.
B. Proctor
E. Proctor, discharged October 7, 1864.
R.P. Packard, discharged October 7, 1864.
L. Palmer, promoted to lieutenant, Battery D, February 1, 1864.
Sidney Platts, discharged; no date.
H.F. Robbins.
D.G. Reid, killed at Bentonville (no date.)
J.R. Reid
E. Stearns.
Sergeant F.F. Shaw, promoted from private; disch. with battery.
Sergeant H.S. Scott, discharged with battery.
Sergeant L. Sweatland
Seargeant L. St.John
Sergeant George M. Salkeld, prom. regimental q.m.; disch. with battery.
Sergeant J. Storms
Sergeant H.C. Snedekor
Sergeant A. Saunders, discharged with battery.
Sergeant O. Saunders, discharged with battery.
Sergeant P.C. Wintersteen
Sergeant C.C. Waite
Sergeant G. P. Wintersteen
Wagoner H. Wooden, discharged with battery.
James Wisenor
N. Witmore, discharged October 1, 1864.
Z. Whitman
S. Wise
B. Winchester, discharged with battery.
W.S. Paige
Artificer W. Collister, disch. by reason expiration service, Oct. 7, 1864.
J.B. Allen.
H. Manchester, enlisted August 9, 1862; prom. corp. March 1, 1865.
A.J. Bump, enlisted 1865; discharged with battery.
H. Burdick, enlisted 1864; discharged with battery.
A. Call, enlisted 1862; discharged with battery.
Wm. Ferrel, discharged with battery.
G.W. Fleming, enlisted 1862; discharged with battery.
Orando Hill, enlisted 1862; discharged with battery.
Jas. A. Hazen, recruit of 1863; discharged with battery.
W.C. Hammond, recruit of 1862; discharged with battery.
T. Ingersoll, recruit of 1862; discharged with battery.
T. Kissell, recruit of 1863; discharged with battery.
S.W. Laraway, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
T.C. Lampman, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
Jas. Little, recruit of 1863; discharged with battery.
Geo. Martindale, recruit of 1862; discharged with battery.
E.H. Munsell, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
G.W. McGonegal, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
S. Moore, recruit of 1862; discharged with battery.
W. Prince, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
O.R. Parks, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
J. Thompson, recruit of 1862; discharged with battery.
C.H. Varney, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
B.R. Wilton, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
W. Barius, recruit of 1864; died June 5, 1864.
F.H. Flagell, recruit of 1864; died May 25, 1864.
J. Fleming, recruit of 1864; died February 28, 1864.
R.J. Fort, mustered out with battery; died January 21, 1864.
B. La Clear, mustered out with battery; died January 6, 1864.
T.B. Martindale, recruit of 1863; died August 14, 1864.
Z. Blood, recruit of 1864; discharged with battery.
W.J. Paige, discharged October 7, 1864.
J. Stebbins, discharged October 8, 1864.
F. Morgan, tranferred to Invalid Corps, February 25, 1864.
Darius Gilbert, killed at Chickamauga.

All names not otherwise stated were members of this battery from its organization, re-enlisted, and were mustered out with it.

Battery G.

Sergeant A. Kimble, enlisted December 5, 1861.
Corporal C.N., Riddle, enlisted November 30, 1861.
Bugler D.W. Merrill, enlisted November 26, 1861.
Bugler A. Zimmerman, enlisted December 12, 1861.
Artificer M. Reener, enlisted December 17, 1861.
J. Bradley, enlisted December 2, 1861.
D. Cox, enlisted December 12, 1861.
F.C. Downing, enlisted December 9, 1861.
W.F. Darling, enlisted December 17, 1861.
W. Gould, enlisted December 9, 1861.
J. Goodchild, enlisted December 4, 1861.
J.W. Hopkins, enlisted December 7, 1861.
T. Kiernon, enlisted December 12, 1861.
J. King, enlisted November 26, 1861.
A. McEwen, enlisted December 11, 1861.
M.A. Mitchell, enlisted December 14, 1861.
C. Potter, enlisted December 12, 1861.
J. Robbins, enlisted December 10, 1861.
D. Sheridan, enlisted December 7, 1861.
H.P. Straight, enlisted December 4, 1861.
J.H. Williams, enlisted December 7, 1861.
S. Truman,
M.H. Hamlin
F. Woolever.
George Peck, enlisted December 5, 1861.
Joseph C. Hackney, enlisted December 11, 1861.
John Parmelle
H.J. Clark
E. Squires
C. Marsh
H.P. Strait
James Brain
W.K. Starks
J.D. Wheeler
S.S. Wheeler
F.D. Vrooman
L. Starks
D. Sheldon
H.R. Roberts
A. Stockham
H. Roberts
T.J. Smith
George Stocking
F. Edgerton, enlisted December 10, 1861.

Battery M.

Sergeant John Deis.
A. Bansiher
F. Fuchs
G. Rothermill
T. Raffel.

First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery.

Battery C of this regiment was mustered into the United States service September 9, 1861, at Camp Dennison. October 1 it left that camp for Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, and on arrival joined an expedition of some ten thousand men under General Albin Schoepf, for the purpose of relieving East Tennessee. This expedition resulted in the battle of Mill Spring and the defeat of the rebel General Zollicoffer. Battery C did some effective firing. One of its discharges - a James projectile - burst over a column of rebels, killing seven and wounding thirteen. On October 30, 1862, the battery was assigned to the Fourteenth Army Corps under General Thomas, and sent to Gallatin, Tennessee. On March 1, 1864, this battery returned to the field at Chattanooga. It was in the battles of Ralling Ford, Chickamauga,- where it lost thirteen men, thirty horses; and one gun dismounted,- Mission Ridge; and at the close of this campaign re-enlisted, and was assigned to the Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps; was in the battles of Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, Peach-tree Creek, and the siege of Atlanta, Averyville, and Bentonville, which closed the active service of the battery. It was mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio, June 15, 1865.

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