Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

On September 20, 1863, in the afternoon, Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, armed with four James guns and two Napoleons and attached to Willich's Brigade, Johnson's Division, McCook's Corps, was commanded by Captain Wilbur F. Goodspeed, with 1st Lieutenant Edmund B. Belding, who was wounded, 1st Lieutenant Charles W. Scovill, and 2d Lieutenant Roland G. Day. Soon after noon the battery took position on this ground facing south. At about 1:30 p.m., with the brigade's infantry in support, the enemy opened on it with artillery, and the battery fired about 50 rounds in reply before the enemy ceased firing. The battery remained there until nearly dark, when a general withdrawal began under the enemy's artillery fire. It retired firing with prolonges fixed, the enemy's artillery pressing so near that the opposing batteries fired at each other with canister. The battery then limbered up and moved north to the vicinity of McDonald's, then west to the high ground overlooking the Mullis House, where it took position with Willich's and Robertson's (King's) Brigades to cover the withdrawal of other troops through McFarland's Gap, and moved with them, reaching Rossville at midnight and bivouacking. Its battle casualties were 1 officer wounded, 2 men killed, 13 men wounded, 4 men missing, and 15 horses wounded.

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