Battery M, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

On September 19, 1863, Battery M, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, armed with 4 James and 2 3" rifles and commanded by Captain Frederick Schultz with 1st Lieutenant Joseph Hein, 1st Lieutenant Eben P. Sturges, and 2d Lieutenant Jacob Ziegler, was posted near Crawfish Springs in the morning. One half of the battery under Lieutenants Sturges and Ziegler was then ordered to re-enforce Bridges' Illinois Battery near Glass' Mill, where about noon it fought a severe artillery duel with part of the batteries of Breckinridge's Division. After the enemy's guns were withdrawn, that half battery was ordered at about 2 p.m. to rejoin the other half, and the whole battery moved left by way of Crawfish Springs. About 6 p.m., one half under Lieutenants Sturges and Ziegler, supporting troops of the Second and Third Brigades, came into action on this ground and fired ten rounds of canister. At 8 p.m., this half was ordered to join the other half on the hill west of this position, where the battery remained during the night.

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia · United States