Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery
Commanded by Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper -- Prentiss' Division
(front):
Ohio 5th Battery Light Artillery
Commanded by
Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper
Prentiss'(6th) Division
Army of the Tennessee
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This battery went into action at 7.30 a.m., April 6, 1862,in Spain field. At 9 a.m. it retired to this place with four guns and was hotly engaged until 4 p.m., when it retired with 3 guns to McArthur's headquarters, where it was engaged in last encounter of the day. Its loss was 1 man killed; 1 officer and 8 men wounded; total 20. It had 2 guns captured and 1 disabled.
Marker is on Sunken Road 0.1 miles east of Eastern Corinth Road, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
