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20th Ohio Independent Battery Light
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20th Ohio Independent Battery Light Artillery Soldier Roster - Official Roster of the Soldiers of the
State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, Volume 10, by Ohio
Roster Commission (Joseph B. Foraker, Governor, James S. Robinson, Sec'y of
State and H. A. Axline, Adjutant-General), 1886
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| Regimental History |
| Twentieth Independent Battery Light Artillery. — Capts.,
Louis Smithnight, John T. Edward Grosskopff, William Backus ; First
Lieuts., Francis O. Robbins, Henry Roth, Oscar W. Hancock, Charles F.
Nitschelm, John S. Burdick, Harlan P. Josselyn, Henry Horn ; Second
Lieuts., Matthias Adams, William Neracher, Henry Hoehn. This battery was
mustered into service on Oct. 29, 1862, at Camp Cleveland, to serve for
three years, numbering 156 officers and men. Under orders from
headquarters it left in December to join the Army of the Cumberland,
then at Murfreesboro, Tenn., under command of Gen. Rosecrans, and
arrived at that place in February. The battery participated in the
affair at Liberty gap and lost 1 man killed and 2 slightly wounded. Its
next engagement was the battle of Chickamauga, in which it performed
good service, losing 3 men wounded and 2 taken prisoners. The Federal
army falling back on Chattanooga, the battery went into camp at that
place, but on the inauguration of the Atlanta campaign it moved with
Gen. Sherman's forces and was in active service during the whole of that
eventful and arduous march. It took part in the battle of Franklin,
Tenn., with a loss of 14 men killed and wounded, and was also engaged in
the battle of Nashville, but without casualty. The battery was mustered
out on July 13, 1865, at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, in accordance with orders
from the war department, and on that day there were present 116 rank and
file, only 71 of whom were original members of the battery.
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Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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