Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery Marker - Chickamauga National Battlefield
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N 34° 55.453 W 085° 15.143
16S E 659628 N 3866033
This marker to the Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery is located along a wooded path that connects Battleline Road and Alexander Road in the Chickamauga National Battlefield.
Waymark Code: WMDZ5M
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 03/12/2012
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This marker is dedicated to the
Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, is in recognition of their service during the
Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863. Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio, and mustered into Federal service on September 6, 1861.
This marker marks their position at 12:30 p.m.on September 19, 1863. This is one of two markers to the Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery on the Battlefield.
Text on the front of the monument:
Battery A,
1st Ohio Light
Artillery
Willich’s
Brigade.
12:30 P.M.
September 19,
1863
From the NRHP nomination form:
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Structure Number: |
MT-914(see note) |
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LCS ID: |
003105 |
Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
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Entered - Documented
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National Register Date:
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07/25/1986
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National Historic Landmark?: |
No
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Significance Level:
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Contributing
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Short Significance Description:
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Marker contributes to national significance of park under NR Criterion A because it represents the national movement among veterans & related groups to commemorate Civil War battlefields. This was the first U.S. national military park.
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Short Physical Description
A 1'6" x 1'6" x 3' high granite obelisk with a raised letter inscription.Marks regiment's position just north of the south end of Kelly Field on September 19, 1863, at 12:30 p.m. (Note: The physical description in the NRHP List of Classifying structures for markers 914 and 915 appear to have the times reversed.)
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Structural Component(s)
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Material(s)
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1.
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Superstructure
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Granite
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Construction Period:
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Historic
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Chronology:
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Physical Event
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Begin Year
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Begin Year AD/BC
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End Year
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End Year AD/BC
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Designer
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Designer Occupation
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1.
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Built
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1894
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AD
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My Sources
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NRHP
2. Wikipedia -
Battle of Chickamauga
3. The Civil War Home -
The Chickamauga Campaign - Union Order of Battle
4. Wikipedia -
Battery A, 1st Ohio Light Artillery
Note
Trailhead Graphics, Inc. has produced a map of the Chickamauga Battlefield showing the locations of all of the monuments and the markers on the battlefield. Each location on the map has a number associated with it that cross-references to an index on the back of the map that has the name of the marker (called the Chick-Chatt NMP monument numbering system). This number corresponds to the structure Number listed on the NPS List of Classified Structures that is normally prefixed with the letters MT for the Chickamauga Battlefield. This marker is not on the map since it is outside the park.