Battery C, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

On September 19, 1863, Battery C, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, with four James guns and two Napoleons, served with Croxton's Brigade, Brannan's Division, Thomas' Corps, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Marco B. Gary, with 1st Lieutenant Hiram W. Turner, 2d Lieutenant Thomas King, and 2d Lieutenant Jerome B. Stephens. After an all night's march from the vicinity of Morgan's Ford on the Chickamauga via Crawfish Spring, the battery and its brigade arrived at Kelly's house soon after daylight, and about 7 a.m. moved in the brigade's second line to the front and took position in a small open field. The infantry then moved forward into the timber and engaged an enemy present in heavy force. Twenty minutes later the battery moved forward, but finding the infantry already falling back, it took position on this ground and fired a few shells at high elevation for effect only. Three successive times during the day the battery was ordered into position in the face of the enemy, and each time, with the infantry driven back, it was ordered to the rear. About 4 p.m. the battery followed the brigade to the right and bivouacked for the night in the Dyer field. Its casualties for the day were one man severely wounded and one horse killed.

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