Killed at Shiloh 1862

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Photograph and memorial
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...=1862&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=28926105&df=all&

 

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Quote from Find-a-grave posting.

He was in charge of Gun #2, At the battle his shoulder was blown off by a cannonball and he was thrown off of his horse. He was the only member of the 13th Ohio Battery to die at the battle of Pittsburg Landing "Shiloh".

Was this the 13th Ohio Light Artillery Battery that dishonored themselves at Shiloh? That would explain why he was he only one to die in the battle.

Three batteries—Myers's 13th Ohio, Mann's 1st Missouri, and Ross's 2nd Michigan—supported the Union line and faced south toward the Hamburg-Purdy road.

By Hurlbut's angry account, the battery personnel ("ignorant of duty and drill") set up their guns on Sunday, April 6th 1862 and then--"A single shot from the enemy's battery struck in [Capt. John B.] Myers' 13th Ohio Battery when officers, and men, with a common impulse of disgraceful cowardice, abandoned their entire battery, horses, caissons, and guns, and fled, and I saw no more of them until Tuesday".

Said a friendly onlooker, Union Lieutenant Cuthbert W. Laing of the nearby 2nd Michigan Battery:" They had just got unlimbered when one of their caissons was shivered to pieces, and the horses of one of the guns took fright and ran through our lines. All then left the battery without firing a shot.

Source Link: http://civilwarjourney1862.blogspot.com/2010/12/battery-disbanded.html