The National tribune., 1895-10-31
The cath Battery, Ind. L. A.

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| This battery was organized at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, Nov. %, 1862, to serve three years,
and was mustered out of service Aug. 3, 1853.
| Capt. Joseph A. Sims, who was mustered
| into service as Captain, resigned Jan. Z, 1854,
and was succeeded by Alexander Hardy,
who received bis commission as Captain Of
the battery early in April, and remained in
command until the organizations was muster
| ed out. The command took the name Of it's
hIst Captain, and was known "a "Sims's
Battery" 1t served in Hovey's Division,
Twenty-third Corps, and during its enlist
ment sustained total loss of 81 men.
The 2Sth Battery, Ind. L. A.
This battery was organized at Indianapo-
| lis, Ind, from Sept. to Nov. 4, 1864, to
serve one year, and was mustered out Of
service July 20, 1866. Capt Frederick C.
Strum, who was com missisned upen the
organization Of the battery, remained in
command during it's entire term. The com
mand was designated "Strum's Battery"
IL served in the Fourth Corps, but was not
assigned to any division. Its total loss was
one MAJ killed and six died.
The asth Battery, Ind. L. A.
This command was far more generally
known as Wilder's Battery" It was origin
ally recruited in May, 1861, for light artil-
lery company, by Capt. John T. Wilder, Of
Greenburg, Ind, and was offered to the State
as such, but Was not accepted. The CON-
pany then joined the 18th Ind, which was
at Indianapolis, and was mustered into the
service as Co. A of that regiment, June IL,
1861. Capt. Wilder was promoted TO be
LieutenaatC Colonel of the regiment, and was
succeeded in command of the company by
First Lieut.. Silas F. Rigby, who was soon
after com nissisned Captain. The regiment
left the State for Western Virginia July 2,
1851, and Co. A took with it the six wrought
iron s Founders which had bean presented TO
1T while at Decatur, and when it was sup
posed that it would be light artillery. At
Elk Water, Va, Co. A was detached from
the regiment and organized as an artillery
company. IL was then designated the First
Independent Battery" 1t was sometimes
known as "Rigby's Battery" The battery
was mustered out of service July Is, 1866,
with Capt. Hubbard T. Thomas in command
The command served in Hovey's Division,
Twenty-third Corps. Its total loss was one
officer and IL men died.
The 1st Pa. L. A.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your
issue of Sept. %, in Their Records" there
are some slight mistakes, which, / think,
should be corrected. You say the 1st Pa.
l.. A. was organized at Philadelphia, Pa.
Some of the batteries may have been organ
lied there, but the regiment was organized
at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg 1t was organ
lied Aug. 1, 1861. This know, for our
first Captain, E. M. Lewis, was promoted
Major on that date. The old members of
Battery E are given as being mustered cut
June 20, 1854. IL was June IL, 1864
Onr Hrat al haco
E. M. Lewis; then came Capt. Barr, fol-
lowed by Theodore Miller, and he by Thos.
G. Orwig, and he by Henry Y Wlldey mot
Wildly, as you had it). The battery, while
/ was connected with it, was at the siege of
Yorktown, battles of Williamsburg, Fair
Oaks, Chickahominy Bridge, and second
Williamsburg. In the first two engage
ments we were under fire, but not engaged.
What took place after June IL, 1864, let
others tell for, as an original member of
that battery, / with others was mustered |
out at Fortress Monroe at that date-JOHN |
F. VENTS, Battery E, LIST l.. A, Pa. Reserve |
Corps, Ellsworth, Wis.
Battery G, 1st Ohio L, A.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE Some time |
ago you published a record of this organiza-
ton, but it was very short and incomplete.
[ do not expect to write history of the /
battery, and could not if should try; but |
DO want to make a correction in our losses.
You give us credit for seven killed and %
by death or other causes, when our actual
record gives US IA killed and died from
and 40 by death, making the total
loss while in the service 81. Our total en-
istm ent was 265. The killed are as follows:
At Rolling Fork, KY. Dec. 30, 1862, Lieut..
H. w. POLLS; at Chickamaugs, Sept. 10 and
20, 1863, Serg't Robert Wilkinson, G. Ell.
Belknap, ID. A. Gilbert, w. G. Harris, o. III.
Haskell, ID. NJ. Horton, L. st. John; on the
Atlanta campaign, at Cassville, May 10,
Henry Gilbreatb, w. I'll. III. Mallory, III. c.
Giney, Charles Hickock; at New Hope
Church, Corp'l Jerry Stone, Aug. IL, before
Atlanta, and Corp1 ID. G. Reed, at Benton
,ille N. c., March 10, 1866. will net give
he names of those who died in the field.
This battery was in ThOmss's Brigade at
Will Spring, in the Third Division, Second
Brigade, Fourteenth Corps, until after the
'attle of Chickamauga, when it was trans
erred to ButterwOrth's Division, Twentieth
;orps, and was under the immediate COM
nand of Maj. Reynolds, Chief of Artillery
vas in the march to the sea and the Grand
review at Washington.-R- KING, Chardon,