4th Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, and mustered in August 17, 1861. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., August 21, 1861, thence to Jefferson City and to Sedalia, Mo., September 30. Attached to Army of the West and Dept. of Missouri to February, 1862. 1st Division Army of Southwest Missouri to May, 1862. Artillery, 3rd Division, Army of Southwest Missouri to July, 1862. District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 11th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, August, 1864.
SERVICE.--Fremont's Campaign against Springfield, Mo., October 13-27. Duty at Springfield until November 8. Moved to Rolla, Mo., November 8, and duty there until February, 1862. Curtis' advance on Springfield, Mo., February 2-13. Campaign against Price in Missouri and Arkansas February and March. Battles of Pea Ridge March 6-8. March to Batesville, Ark., April 5-May 8, and to Helena, Ark., May 25-July 14. Duty there until October. Expedition up Yazoo August 16-27. Capture of Steamer "Fair Play" August 17. Milliken's Bend August 18. Haines Bluff August 21. Bolivar Landing August 22. Greenville August 23. Ordered to St. Genevieve, Mo., October 7, thence to Pilot Knob, Mo., and duty there until November 11. Moved to St. Genevieve, thence to Camp Steele, and duty there until December 22. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 22, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17-23. Duty at Perkins' Plantation and Ballard's Farm until April 2. Expedition to Greenville, Black Bayou and Deer Creek April 2-14. Demonstrations on Haines and Snyder's Bluff April 26-May 2. Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf May 2-14. Battle of Jackson, Miss., May 14. 
* May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
** May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
** May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
** Expedition to Greenville June 25-July 1. 
** Gaines' Landing June 28. 
** July 4, 1863 - Surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi
* Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. 
* Siege of Jackson July 10-17. 
* Duty at Big Black until September. 
* September 26-November 20, 1863 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Chattanooga, Tennessee
* Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. 
* Cherokee Station October 21.
* Cane Creek October 26. 
* Bear Creek (Tuscumbia) October 27. 
* November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign
** Battles of Lookout Mountain November 23-24.
** Mission Ridge November 25.
* At Larkinsville and Woodville, Ala., until May, 1864.
* May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
** May 8-13, 1864 - Demonstration on Resaca, Georgia
*** May 13, 1864 - Combat at Resaca, Georgia
** May 14-May 15, 1864 - Battle of Resaca, Georgia
** Advance on Dallas May 18-25. 
** May 25-June 5, 1864 - Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
** Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. 
** Assault on Kenesaw June 27. 
** Nickajack Creek July 2-5. 
** Chattahoochie River July 5-17. 
** July 22, 1864 - Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
** July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
** Ezra Chapel, Hood's 2nd sortie, July 28. 
* Ordered to rear August 14, and Non-Veterans mustered out August 29, 1864. 
* Veterans and Recruits attached to Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., attached to 10th Ohio Battery until March. 1865. * Transferred to 10th Ohio (Independent) Light Artillery Battery March 19, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
* Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 5 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 27 Enlisted men by disease. Total 34.
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 703, 705, 707, 715, 779, 783, 866, 1488-1489)
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