Reminiscences of the Cleveland Light Artillery

by Anonymous

CLEVELAND LIGHT ARTILLERY
Camp Putnam, Marietta, Ohio, May, 1861

Reminiscences
of the
Cleveland Light Artillery

Cleveland
Cleveland Printing Company
1906

Contents.

		PAGE
I.	The Acorn from which Grew the Oak.	[3]
II.	A Prompt Response to War’s Alarms and the
	Artillery Goes to the Front.	[20]
III.	The Campaign in Western Virginia.	[37]
	Independent Companies.	[76]
	Barnett’s big regiment.	[77]
	“Commissary” Harry Bingham.	[79]
IV.		[81]
	Muster List	[94]
	Senate Bill	[101]

CHAPTER I.
The Acorn from which Grew the Oak.

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 highest possible standard of excellence. Their most praiseworthy efforts were rewarded by a full measure of success, and the company was soon celebrated far and near for its fine appearance, excellent drill, and perfection of military discipline.