Lake/Geauga county roster – per Williams Bros. History of Geauga and Lake Counties
Shields' Battery.
H. Buffington – photograph available
S. Campbell
A. Peters – officer – probably worked for the railroad
W. Otis - related to the Waites – did not find on official roster
W. Nash
J. Van Looven – officer – probably worked for the railroad
C.H. Vial
E. McNally – did not find on official roster
E. Waite
Orrin Waite - Died - Kenesaw Mt., Ga - 6/64
S. Storm – photograph available
H. Markell. – did not find on official roster
OFFICERS
Joseph C. Shields
Frank Wilson
William Dustin
Charles B. Harris
Robertson Smith
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
John N. Estabrook
Thomas Poole
James W. Grimshaw
Pardon B. Smith
Robert D. Hanna
Arthur Gray
Charles Luck
Thomas J. Hudson
Simon W. Killiam
Patrick H. Gallagher
Alexander G. Cassill
Geo. H. Campell
Norman Champney
William A. Bruner
William G. Byron
Jas. M. Johnson
Asahel B. Peters
Edward F. Brown
George H. Barber
William H. Stover
Edward Byerly
Henry W. Redhead
John H. Van Luven
James A. Wilson
PRIVATES
John Andrews
Thos. J. Armstrong
Guy Ball
Alonzo Barrett
John Bassett
Albert Bishop
John Bissell
Frank D. Bostwick
Wm. R. Boyd
John E. Bradford
Ira Bruner
Marx Buhl
Wm. R. Burger
Wm. Burton
Solon O. Campbell
Melvin R. Carter
Alex. Chevalia
Wm. Childs
Edwin J. Cobb
John M. Concklin
Wm. H. Cook
Gabriel W. Crossley
Joseph B. Crouch
Henry Curtis
Edmund W. Davis
John B. Douglass
Drury F. Dryden
Harry Ellsler
Edward C. Fairchild
Samuel T. Ferguson
Horatio J. Foote
Austin C. Gaskill j
Thomas Gearity
Jasper N. Gibbons
Oscar E. Gifford
Frank Gilbert
Adam Glib
Jas. A. Gould
Meric Gould
Alfonzo Hard
Wallace Harper
Theo. N. Harrington
Jacob Hartman
Geo. A. Haver
Philip D. Hecker
Wm. Hecker
Jas. Hendricks
Jas. V. Hiddleson
John Hill
Fred. Hodel
Wm. Hogan
John Honoddle
Michael Houck
Ruel H. House
Jere M. Hower, Jr.
Heman H. Hubbard
Jos. C. Huston
Andrew J. Kelly
Albert J. Ketchum
Edward W. Kidney
Rudolphus M. Kridler
Martin Leonard
Martin V.B. Leper
John Lowe
Wm. Maier
Robt. G. Marcellus
Delos R. Marks
Jacob Marx
Andrew F. McGhee
Wm. Messenger
John Moore
Edwin C. Morse
Luke R. Murphy
Jere. W. Nash
Jos. M. Odell
Geo. M. Patterson
John C. Quinlan
Jas. L. Reed
John Reese
Harrison H. Remington
Steven G. Remington
John Reiley
Edward C. Root
Geo. H. Root
Andrew D. Sackett
B.L. Sampson
Wm. K. Scott
Elbert B.A. Simons
Wm. J. Spafford
Jas. H. Stanford
Alex. B. Stevens
Joseph Strine
Jacob K. Stucker
Robert Thompson
Ellis D. Torry
Theodore C. W. Tracie
Chas. H. Viall
Erastus R. Wait
Orrin L. Wait
John Walcott
John Watkins
George Williams
Richard H. Williams
Victor R. Williams
Andrew Wolf
BATTERY RECRUITS
John W. Barnum
Elden C. Dixon
E.H. Fox
O.E. Gifford
Allan Monroe
Low J. Minnick
Smith Riley
Charles E. Silvernail
BOLD – Civil War Photograph Available
UNDERLINE – 1897 Group Photograph Available
19TH OHIO INDEPENDENT BATTERY ROSTER, THREE YEARS’ SERVICE |
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| Rank | Name | Date of Rank | Cox. Issued | Remarks |
| Captain | Joseph C. Shields | July 28, 1862 | April 29, 1863 | Resigned September 15, 1864 |
| Do. | Frank Wilson | Nov. 3, 1864 | Nov. 3, 1864 | Mustered out June 27, 1865 |
| 1st Lieutenant | Frank Wilson | July 28, 1862 | April 29, 1863 | Promoted to Captain |
| Do. | Wm. Dustin | July 28, 1862 | April 29, 1863 | Mustered out June 27, 1865 |
| Do. | Charles B. Harris | Nov. 3, 1864 | Nov. 3, 1864 | Mustered out June 27, 1865 |
| 2d Lieutenant | Charles B. Harris | July 28, 1862 | April 29, 1863 | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant |
| Do. | Robertson Smith | July 28, 1862 | April 29, 1863 | Resigned February 3, 1863 |
| Do. | John N. Estabrook | May 23, 1864 | May 23, 1864 | Mustered out June 27, 1865 |
| Do. | James W. Grimshaw | Jan. 26, 1865 | Jan. 26, 1865 | Mustered out June 27, 1865 |
NINETEEN OHIO INDEPENDENT BATTERY.
This battery was recruited in the vicinity of Cleveland, and left Camp Cleveland, near that place, on October 6, 1862, en route for Covington, Kentucky. Here it remained until July, 1863, during which time not a shot was fired, except in the way of practice. In the latter part of July the battery joined in the chase after Morgan’s rebel cavalry through Indiana and Ohio, after which it was ordered back to Kentucky and placed in the reserve artillery of General Burnside’s army. With that force it crossed the Cumberland Mountains into East Tennessee, and in September, 1863, moved forward from Knoxville with the forces that advanced on Cumberland Gap, and to who General Frazier, the Rebel commander of that stronghold, surrendered without firing a shot. It then returned to Knoxville, and remained there up to the time of and during the siege. During the siege it occupied positions on the extreme right of the line, but was not, to any extent, engaged. The right section as station in Fort Sanders during the entire siege, and did good execution, without the loss of a man.
The battery participated in the East Tennessee campaign of 1863-4, and shared all its hardships. In the spring of 1864 it was attached to the Second Division of the Twenty-Third Army Corps (General Judah commanding), and moved with that crops from Knoxville on April 28th. The corps was joined at Calhoun, Tennessee, by the Third Division. Reaching, Red Clay, Georgia, it joined the Army of the Tennessee, and on May 9th was hotly engaged in the battle of Rocky Face Ridge.
On May 23d the battery was again engaged at very short range, using canister freely. From this on to the close of the Atlanta campaign, From Rocky Face Ridge to Lovejoy’s Station it was engaged in all the fierce battles of that march. On September 8th, with the whole army it fell back to Atlanta and vicinity. The battery was stationed at Decatur, and while there reorganized and re-equipped for the next campaign.
The movements of the enemy did not allow much time for recruiting either horses or men. October 3d found the battery again inside the fortifications of Atlanta, where it remained until November 1st, when orders were received to proceed to Nashville by rail. At Nashville, it drew a complete new outfit, and on November 16th was ready to take part in the reception of General Hood and his forces.
On December 15th the battery moved out of Nashville with General Thomas’s army and took part in the brilliant fights of the 15th and 16th, the results of which were the utter defeat of the Rebel army and it s precipitate retirement from before Nashville.
The battery followed by the flying Rebels to a point on the Tennessee River, where, under orders, it was placed on transports and taken to Cincinnati, and thence by rail and transports to Fort Fisher, North Carolina. It arrived at Fort Fisher on the 22d of February, 1865, and, without landing, was taken on up the river to Wilmington.
On March 6th the battery joined in the North Carolina campaign. In this there was much hard marching and little fighting. A few skirmishes with the enemy at important points along the route was about all that transpired. On March 21st it entered Goldboro’ and on the 24th, near Goldsboro’, made a junction with General Sherman’s army. It lay at this place until April 9th, and them moved to Raleigh.
While at Raleigh, news of Lee’s surrender and Johnston’s capitulation was received. The battery, however, was selected to do garrison-duty at Salisbury, North Carolina, and remained at that place up to June 15th, when it was ordered to proceed to Greensboro’ turn over its ordnance stores, and take transportation for Cleveland, via Danville, City Point, and Washington City. It arrived at Cleveland on the 23d of June and was paid and mustered out of service on the 29th of June, 1865, after three years of faithful and arduous service.
The East Tennessee campaign of 1863-4 was probably the most trying of any that the battery through during the whole of its service. The winter was unusually severe, and the ground almost continually covered with snow and ice. So sever, indeed, was the cold that the men were almost constantly employed in cutting and hauling fuel to ward off death by freezing. Provisions were very scare. The country had already been closely foraged by both army and it was an utter impossibility for the Government authorities to send supplies into that bleak and almost inaccessible county. And yet the casualties of the battery were slight; the men seemed to be as thoroughly inured to the hardships of their position as if they had always lived in that part of the country.
In addition to the privations of cold and lack of ration, the men were compelled to improvise habitations, as their tents had been left in the rear. Under these circumstances the advent of spring was gladly hailed as the harbinger of better times and more comfortable campaigns. Spring opened, and with it came the Atlanta campaign, one of the busiest and most arduous of the war.
The information on this page was submitted by Chris Whipple
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