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The First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery—whose guns thundered on nearly all the great battlefields of the War for the Union, 1861-5—owed its existence to a process of evolution. It was the result of a growth during a period of more than twenty years. The Cleveland Grays, an independent military company, was formed in 1837. It was composed of active, intelligent, patriotic young men who displayed from the first a laudable pride in the organization, and an ambition to bring it up to the h

At half past four o’clock on the morning of Friday—unlucky day—April 12, 1861, the rebel batteries at Charleston opened fire on Fort Sumter. The fort was surrendered at noon of Sunday, April 14. On this day President Lincoln drafted his proclamation calling out seventy-five thousand volunteers for three months. That night it went out by telegraph, and on Monday the people of the North knew that the last hope of compromise had vanished. Already the “dogs of war” had been slipped, and the country

Picturesque dreams of mighty conflicts and fields of glory disturbed the slumbers of those in Camp Putnam during the night of May 27th. Nor were they far out of the way, for before another sunset, part of the artillery would be en route for “the front.” Early on the morning of the 28th a telegraph messenger handed to Colonel Barnett a dispatch which read as follows: Parkersburg Va., May 28, 1861. To Col. Barnett: Send immediately to this place two companies of artillery, with their pieces, horse

The public reception of the First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery (3 months) at their home as before related practically closed the military career of that command; however, a large number of the men enlisted in other commands, notably into the First Ohio Light Artillery (3 years) the term being for three years or during the war. It was soon found that through the emergency of affairs at the opening of trouble and the improper muster in and muster out as state troops that the men had no proper sta

H. R. 619. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. June 23, 1902. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. AN ACT Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the officers and enlisted men of the First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery (three months’ service), furnished by the State of Ohio under the call of the President of the United States issued on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and