Simmonds ' Battery Kentucky Light Artillery Simmonds ' Battery Kentucky Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . It was sometimes referred to as the 1st Kentucky Independent Battery , and has the distinction of being the only Kentucky unit in U . S . service to serve in the eastern theater . Service . The battery was organized at Pendleton , Ohio from Company E , 1st Kentucky Infantry at a time when Kentucky was attempting to remain neutral . It was mustered in under the command of Captain Seth J . Simmonds . The battery was attached to District of the Kanawha , West Virginia , to March 1862 . 2nd Brigade , Kanawha Division West Virginia , to September 1862 . 2nd Brigade , Kanawha Division , IX Corps , Army of the Potomac , to October 1862 . District of the Kanawha , West Virginia , Department of the Ohio , to March 1863 . 1st Brigade , 3rd Division , VIII Corps , Middle Department , to June 1863 . 1st Brigade , Scammon ' s Division , Department of West Virginia , to December 1863 . 3rd Brigade , 3rd Division West Virginia , to April 1864 . Artillery , 2nd Infantry Division West Virginia , to July 1864 . Reserve Division , Harper ' s Ferry , West Virginia , to April 1865 . 2nd Brigade , 1st Infantry Division West Virginia , to July 1865 . Simmonds ' Battery Kentucky Light Artillery mustered out of service on July 26 , 1865 . Detailed service . Duty at Pendleton , Ohio , until July 1861 . Ordered to the Kanawha Valley , Va . , July 10 . March from Mt . Pleasant to Charleston , Va . , July 11 – 25 . Action at Scarry Creek July 17 . Tyler Mountain July 24 . Capture of Charleston July 25 . Advance to Gauley July 26 - August 1 . Moved to Camp Piatt , arriving August 25 . Gauley Bridge August 28 . Boone Court House September 1 . Peytonia September 12 . Moved to Raleigh September 20 – 27 . Chapmansville September 25 . Return to Gauley , arriving there October 10 . Cotton Hill October 13 . Operations in Kanawha Valley October 19 - November 16 . Gauley Bridge October 23 . Attack on Gauley by Floyd ' s Batteries November 1 – 9 . Movement on Cotton Mountain and pursuit of Floyd November 1 – 18 . Duty at Gauley Bridge until April 1862 . Advance on Princeton April 22 - May 4 . At Flat Top Mountain until August . Wolf Creek May 15 . Moved to Washington , D . C . , August 14 – 23 . Maryland Campaign September 6 – 22 . Frederick , Md . , September 12 . Battles of South Mountain September 14 , and Antietam September 16 – 17 . Moved to Clarksburg , Suttonville , Summerville , Gauley Bridge and Kanawha Falls , W . Va . , October 8 - November 14 , and duty there until April 1863 , and at Camp White , Charleston , W . Va . , until July . At Gauley Bridge until September . At Camp Toland , Charleston , W . Va . , until January 1864 . Scout to Boone Court House October 21 – 22 , 1863 . Expedition from Charleston to Lewisburg November 3 – 13 . Capture of Lewisburg November 7 . At Fayetteville until April 1864 . Crook ' s Expedition against Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 2 – 19 . Action at Cloyd ' s Mountain May 9 . New River Bridge May 10 . Hunter ' s Raid on Lynchburg May 26 - July 1 . Lexington June 11 . Diamond Hill June 17 . Lynchburg June 17 – 18 . Buford ' s Gap June 20 . Salem June 21 . At Camp Piatt and Harper ' s Ferry until August , and at Camp Fuller , Va . , until June 1865 . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 13 men during service ; 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 10 enlisted men died of disease .