Battery B, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

On September 19, 1863, Battery B, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, with four James guns and two 6-pounders, served with Cruft’s Brigade, Palmer’s Division, Crittenden’s Corps, under 1st Lieut. Norman A. Baldwin, with 2d Lieuts. James H. Hill and David H. Troup. With Cruft’s brigade, the battery left its position north of Lee and Gordon’s Mill at 11 o’clock A.M. and moved on the Rossville Road to the Poe Field, where a line of battle was formed with the battery in the rear of center. About noon the brigade moved to the front, and half the battery came into position on this ground and opened on the enemy with canister over the heads of the troops, while the other half battery took position on the ridge 400 yards to the rear and threw shell at the front and flanks. During the action, the half battery to the rear advanced to the left flank of the line and rendered excellent service by a left oblique fire on the part of the enemy’s line attacking Gen. Hazen. The battery assisted the brigade in repulsing several enemy attacks and held the ground until 5 o’clock P.M., when it was ordered to the Kelly Field line and bivouacked for the night. It fired 159 rounds, with 3 men wounded and 2 horses shot.

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