1st Ohio Battery 1st Ohio Independent Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 1st Ohio Battery was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus , Ohio and mustered in for three years service on August 6 , 1861 under Captain James Ross McMullin . The battery was attached to Cox ' s Brigade , District of the Kanawha , West Virginia , to September 1861 . Benham ' s Brigade , District of the Kanawha , West Virginia , to October 1861 . 1st Brigade , District of the Kanawha , West Virginia , to March 1862 . 1st Brigade , Kanawha Division , West Virginia , to August 1862 . 1st Brigade , Kanawha Division , IX Corps , Army of the Potomac , to October 1862 . 3rd Brigade , Kanawha Division , West Virginia , Department of the Ohio , to March 1863 . 2nd Brigade , 3rd Division , VIII Corps , Middle Department , to June 1863 . 2nd Brigade , Scammon ' s Division , Army of West Virginia , to December 1863 . 2nd Brigade , 3rd Division , Army of West Virginia , to April 1864 . Artillery , 2nd Infantry Division , Army of West Virginia , to July 1864 . Artillery Brigade , Army of West Virginia , to August 1864 . Artillery Reserve Division , Harpers Ferry , West Virginia , to April 1865 . 3rd Brigade , Hardins ' Division , XXII Corps , Defenses of Washington , to June 1865 . The 1st Ohio Battery mustered out of service June 26 , 1865 at Columbus , Ohio . Detailed service . Ordered to the Kanawha Valley , Va . Action at Carnifex Ferry , Va . , September 10 , 1861 . Moved to Camp Anderson and Big Sewell Mountain September 15 – 23 , then to Camp Anderson October 6 – 9 . Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region October 19 - November 16 . Moved to Gauley and duty there until May 1862 . Advance on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad April 22 - May 1 . Princeton May 11 , 16 and 17 . At Flat Top Mountain until August . Movement to Washington , D . C . , August 15 – 24 . Maryland Campaign September 6 – 22 . Battles of South Mountain September 14 ; Antietam September 16 – 17 . Moved to Clear Springs October 8 , then to Hancock and march to the Kanawha Valley , W . Va . , October 9 - November 17 , via Clarksburg , Summerville , Gauley Bridge , and Kanawha Falls . Duty at Kanawha Falls ( Falls of the Great Kanawha ) until March 1863 , and at Charleston until April 1864 . Fayetteville May 17 – 20 , 1863 ( section ) . Operations against Morgan ' s Raid in Ohio July 2 – 26 , 1863 . Scammon ' s Demonstration from Kanawha Valley December 8 – 25 . Lewisburg and Greenbrier River December 12 , 1863 . Crook ' s Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 3 – 19 , 1864 . Battle of Cloyd ' s Mountain May 9 . New River Bridge May 10 . Salt Pond Gap , Pond Mountain Gap , May 13 . Hunter ' s Expedition to Lynchburg May 26 - July 1 . Lexington June 11 . Diamond Hill June 17 . Lynchburg June 17 – 18 . Buford ' s Gap June 20 . Salem June 21 . Moved to Shenandoah Valley July 12 – 15 . Action at Bunker Hill July 19 . Stephenson ' s Depot , Carter ' s Farm , July 20 . Battle of Winchester July 24 . Retreat to Williamsport , Md . ; then ordered to Martinsburg , W . Va . , and duty there guarding stores until March 1865 . Moved to Harpers Ferry , then to Washington , D . C . , and duty in the defenses of that city until June . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 22 men during service ; 1 officer and 6 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 15 enlisted men died of disease .