No. 86. report of Capt. Jacob Ziegler , Battery B, Pennsylvania Light artillery.

Hdqrs. Battery B, Indpt. Arty., Pa. Vet. Vols., September 7, 1864 .

The battery left Blue Springs, Tenn., on the 3d of May, 1864, under command of the late Capt. S. M. McDowell . Was attached to First Division, Fourth Army Corps, Department of the Cumberland. Has been engaged at Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Kingston, Cassville, New Hope Church, and Kenesaw Mountain, where Capt. S. M. McDowell was killed while performing his duty. Since then the battery was commanded by Capt. Jacob Ziegler , and has been engaged on the 4th of July, 1864, near Chattahoochee River, Ga.-Rebels evacuated the same night and we followed them up to Chattahoochee River, where we took position, crossed the river, and had several engagements, until we came up to front of Atlanta. Left the front of Atlanta on the 25th day of August, 1864, and marched toward the Macon railroad. The casualties during the campaign have been : Nominal list (omitted) shows 3 killed and 13 wounded. Horses killed and disabled, 22.

J. Ziegler, Capt. Battery B, Independent Pennsylvania Vet. Vols. Capt. Lyman Bridges , Chief of Artillery, Fourth Army Corps.