OHIO TWELFTH LIGHT ARTILLERY (TWELFTH INDEPENDENT BATTERY, "JOHNSTON'S") (Three Years)

Twelfth Independent Battery Light Artillery. Capts., Aaron C. Johnson, Frank Jackson, Alfred Noecker; First Lieuts., Darius Dirlam, Archibald McClellan, William B. Fleming, Ami P. Fairbanks, Albert A. Powers, John B. Ward, William W. Banning, Myron Webber, Alphonso E. Gregory, Madison M. Moore, Joseph Billings, Oregon F. Morgan.; Second Lieuts., Anderson Blue, Calvin A. Day, Henry C. Kilburn. This battery, formerly Co. D, 25th Ohio infantry, was organized at Camp Jackson, June 8, 1861, to serve for three years. It was permanently detached as a battery on March 17, 1862, and immediately joined Gen. Milroy at McDowell, W. Va. In the battle at that place the members of the battery performed their first service as artillery men, and performed it so well that the battery was specially mentioned for efficiency. At the battle of Cross Keys it was for 6 hours under continuous fire and discharged 600 shots from 5 guns, 1 being disabled early in the engagement. In this affair the battery received special notice from Gens. Fremont and Milroy. It took the advance at the second Bull Run and fought all of the first day and the next afternoon, with a loss of 9 men killed and wounded. It passed the winter of 1862-63 at Fredericksburg was on the defenses of Washington during the following summer, and the winter of 1863-64 was spent in Nashville. In the spring it was sent to Murfreesboro and while there took an active part in the various engagements around the place, connected with the Confederate Gen. Hood's reckless advance on Nashville, also fighting at Franklin and Nashville. The battery was finally mustered out on July 10, 1865.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 2

Ohio 12th Volunteer Independent Light Artillery (Union)

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