title: 21st Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery
text: # 21st Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery
  
  21st Ohio Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 21st Ohio Battery was organized at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio and mustered in April 29, 1863, for a three-year enlistment under Captain James W. Patterson.
  
  The battery was attached to Willcox's Left Wing, IX Corps, Department of the Ohio, to October 1863. 2nd Brigade, Left Wing, Department of the Ohio, to January 1864. District of the Clinch, Department of the Ohio, to April 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio, to February 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to July 1865.
  
  The 21st Ohio Battery mustered out of service on July 21, 1865.
  
  ## Detailed service
  
  Ordered to West Virginia May 5. Returned to Camp Dennison May 20, and served duty there until September. Pursuit of Morgan through Indiana and Ohio July 5–28. Moved to Camp Nelson, Kentucky, September 22. Moved from Camp Nelson, to Greenville, Tennessee, October 1. Action at Blue Springs October 10. Walker's Ford December 2. Duty at various points in Tennessee and Alabama until July 1865.
  
  ## Casualties
  
  The battery lost a total of 9 men during service; 1 officer and 8 enlisted men died due to disease.
  
  ## Commanders
  
  * Captain James W. Patterson
  