SECOND BATTERY (ROSS’)
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The Second Battery organized in this State, was raised at Grand Rapids, in connection with the Second Cavalry. It left the State on the 17th of December, 1861, clothed and mounted, but without guns. The battery was at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, and was cut off from its six pieces, and sixty officers and men taken prisoners. The remaining section has since been connected with a Missouri battery but the company has recently recruited with good success, and has been ordered into the field again. In Western Tennessee, where it will soon have, if it has not already been supplied with, a new battery of guns. Its officers are: Name Rank Date |
| William H. Ross | Captain | January 26, 1862 |
| Albert F. Arndt | 1st Lieut. | January 26, 1862 |
| Cuthbert W. Laing | 1st Lieut. | July 4, 1862 |
| Edward B. Wright | 2d Lieut. | August 28, 1862 |
| Bronson C. Meddaugh | 2d Lieut. | August 28, 1862 |
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THIRD BATTERY (DEES’) This battery, raised in connection with the Third Cavalry, left its rendezvous at Grand Rapids, December 17th, 1861. It was engaged in the siege of Corinth, May, 1862, in the battles at Iuka, September 17th and 19th, and aided in the repulse of the enemy at Corinth, October 14. It has lost by deaths from disease, thirteen; death from wounds, one; discharges, fifteen; desertions, four; missing in action, three. Its forces on the 30th of November, was 108. It is now in West Tennessee, and its officers are: Name Rank Date |
| George Robinson | Captain | November 20, 1862 |
| Carl A. Lamberg | 1st Lieut. | July 15, 1862 |
| William H. Sinclair | 1st Lieut. | July 15, 1862 |
| -------- ------------ | 2d Lieut. | |
| ---------- ----------- | 2d Lieut. |
BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES
| Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. | April 6, 1862 |
| Siege of Corinth, Miss. | May 10, to 31, 1862 |
| Corinth, Miss. | October 3,4, 1862 |
| Resaca, Ga. | May 9, 1864 |
| Lay’s Ferry, Ga. | May 14, 1864 |
| Calhoun Ferry, Ga. | May 15, 1864 |
| Rome X Roads, Ga. | May 16, 1864 |
| Cave Springs, Ga. | Oct. 13, 1864 |
| Turkey Ridge, Ala. | Oct. 26, 1864 |
| Griswold, Ga. | Nov. 22, 1864 |
| Ogeechee River, Ga. | Dec. 8, 1864 |
| Savannah, Ga. | Dec. 11 to 20, 1861 |
| Salkehatchie River, S.C. | Feb. 6, 1865 |
| Columbia, S.C. | Feb. 15, 1865 |
| Cox’s Bridge, N.C. | Mar. 20, 1865 |
| Bentonville, N.C. | Mar. 21, 22, 1865 |
Transcriber: Barb Jones
Created: 2 June 2010