4th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery
4th Ohio Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service. The 4th Ohio Battery was organized in Cincinnati, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on August 17, 1861, under Captain Louis Hoffman. The battery was attached to Army of the West and Department of the 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, Department of the Missouri, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 11th Division , Right Wing, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to December 1862. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, XV Corps, Army of the Tennessee, August 1864. The 4th Ohio Battery ceased to exist on March 19, 1865, when its veterans and recruits were transferred to the 10th Ohio Battery. Casualties. The battery lost a total of 34 men during service; 1 officer and 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 27 enlisted men died of disease.