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Civil War Artillery
First Regiment Light Artillery
It was mustered into the service of the United States, May 28th, 1861, with the following officers: Captain, Cyrus 0. Loomis, Coldwater; First Lieutenant, Otis H. Gillam, Coldwater; First Lieutenant, Charles A. Edmunds, Quincy; Second Lieutenant, Roland Root, Coldwater; and Second Lieutenant, Robert G. Chandler, Coldwater.
The battery on being fully equipped, left the State in command of Captain Loomis for the field in West Virginia, May 31, 1861, via Cincinnati, taking with it six brass six-pounders, with complete equipments, furnished by the State.
Light Artillery
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