3rd Ohio Independent Battery was an artillery

Artillery

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

 battery

Artillery battery

In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of guns, mortars, rockets or missiles so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems...

 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...

 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 3rd Ohio Battery was organized in Canton

Canton, Ohio

Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately south of Akron and south of Cleveland.The City of Caton is the largest incorporated area within the Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, Minerva

Minerva, Ohio

Minerva is a village in Carroll, Columbiana, and Stark counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 3,934 at the 2000 census.The Carroll and Stark County portions of Minerva are part of the Canton–Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Columbiana County portion is part...

, and Massillon, Ohio

Massillon, Ohio

Massillon is a city located in Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio, approximately 8 miles to the west of Canton, Ohio, 20 miles south of Akron, Ohio, and 50 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio. The population was 32,149 at the 2010 census....

 November 9, 1861 through March 15, 1862 and mustered in for three years service under Captain William S. Williams.

The battery was attached to 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee

Army of the Tennessee

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, to July 1862. Artillery, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Mississippi, to November 1862. 3rd Division, Left Wing, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to December 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, XVII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to November 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to March 1865. Garrison Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 5th Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, to July 1865.

The 3rd Ohio Battery mustered out of service August 1, 1865 at Columbus, Ohio.

Detailed service

Ordered to Pittsburg Landing. Tenn., March 15, 1862. Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Duty at Corinth until November. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 1862 to January 1863. Reconnaissance to LaGrange November 8-9. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January 1863, and duty there until February 21. Moved to Lake Providence, La., February 21, thence to Milliken's Bend, La. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1 (reserve). Forty Hills, Hankinson's Ferry, May 3-4. Battle of Raymond May 12. Jackson May 14. Champion Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Duty at Vicksburg until February 1864. Expedition to Canton and Brownsville October 14-20, 1863. Bogue Chitto Creek October 17. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864. Clinton, Miss., March 26. At Vicksburg until April 4. March to Huntsville, Ala., thence to Ackworth, Ga,, April 4-June 8. Atlanta Campaign June 8-September 8. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Bushy Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Howell's Ferry July 5. Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy's Station September 2-6. Operations in northern Georgia and northern Alabama against Hood September 29-November 3. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there and at Fort Donelson, Tenn., and vicinity as mounted infantry until June 1865. Ordered to Camp Taylor, Ohio, for muster out.

Casualties

The battery lost a total of 58 men during service; 1 enlisted man killed, 57 enlisted men died of disease.

See also

• List of Ohio Civil War units
• Ohio in the Civil War
  Ohio in the Civil War
  During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army. Due to its central location in the Northern United States and burgeoning population, Ohio was both politically and logistically important to the war effort...
  
  

External links

• Ohio in the Civil War: 3rd Ohio Battery by Larry Stevens