The battery was organized in Cincinnati, Ohio and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 3, 1861 under Captain Hubert Dilger.

[1][2][3] The regiment was organized as early as 1860 under Ohio's militia laws, under Colonel James Barnett.

The battery was attached to Milroy's Command, Cheat Mountain District, Virginia, to April 1862.

The battery fired three rounds at a cluster of Confederate Generals on Pine Top including Joseph E. Johnston and William Hardee.

Johnston and Hardee escaped but the 3rd shell struck Polk in the left side removing his arm and part of his torso killing the bishop/general immediately.