Samuel Braden
1st Ohio Heavy Artillery Company "L"
Samuel Braden was a Private in Company "L" First Ohio
Heavy Artillery Volunteer
1st Regiment Heavy Artillery Regiment organized at Portsmouth, Ohio, as the 117th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
September 15, 1862. Ordered to Kentucky October 2. Attached to District of Eastern Kentucky, Dept. of
the Ohio, October, 1862, to February, 1863. Covington, Ky., District Kentucky, Dept. Ohio,
to August, 1863. Designation of Regiment changed to 1st Heavy Artillery May 2, 1863.
District of North Central Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division,
23rd Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of
East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Ordered to Kentucky, October 2, 1862. Camp at Ashland, Ky., until January,
1863. Moved to Paintsville, Ky., thence to Covington, Ky., via Peach Orchard, Louisa and
Catlettsburg, February, 1863. Constructing fortifications around Coverington and Newport,
Ky., until August. Guard duty in Kentucky by detachments, Company "D" at Paris, Companies "F" and "I" at Lexington, "H," "K," "L," and "M" at Camp Nelson, until
January, 1864. At Camp Burnside January 14 to February 19. March over mountains to
Knoxville, Tenn., February 19-March 9 and duty there until June. On railroad guard duty in
Tennessee until September. Murphy, N. C., June 28 (Cos. "C," "H," "L," "M"). Repulse of
Wheeler's attacks on the Chattanooga, Knoxville & Virginia Railroad, August. Athens August
1 (Detachment). Pursuit of Confederates from Athens into North Carolina August 1-3.
Murphy, N. C., August 2 (Cos. "C," "H," "L" and "M"). Detachments from Companies
"C," "H," "L" and "M"). Sweetwater and Philadelphia August 20 (Detachments). Strawberry Plains, August 24. Gillem's Expedition from East Tennessee toward Southwestern
Virginia September 20-October 17 (Cos. "B," "F," "G," "I" and "K"). Moved to Cleveland,
Tenn., October 7, thence to Chattanooga October 11 and return to Cleveland October 19.
Duty at Cleveland and Charleston until December. Foraging Expeditions on the French Broad
and Chucky River in East Tennessee and North Carolina December, 1864, to January, 1865.
Stoneman's Campaign in Southwest Virginia and Western North Carolina February to April,
1865. Duty in District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July. Mustered out July
25, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 6 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and
164 Enlisted men by disease. Total 171.
Samuel Braden was the Grandfather of Peggie Braden Burkhead
Flag pictures courtesy of Ohio Historical
Society
Ohio History Society