Battery lost 6 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 15 enlisted men to disease, a total of 21. The battery is honored with a monument at Gettysburg.
August 27, 1861 |
Organized at Camp Cameron |
October 3 |
Left State for Washington, D.C.; Attached to Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac and duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. |
March |
Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10-15, 1862 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
April |
Artillery, 1st Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
April 4-12 |
McDowell's advance on Fredericksburg, Va.; attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 23-May 4 |
Ordered via transports to the Peninsula, Va. Siege of Yorktown, Va. |
May 7-8 |
West Point |
June 12 |
Mechanicsville |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 26 |
Mechanicsville |
June 27 |
Gaines Mill |
June 28 |
Golding's Farm and Fort Davidson |
June 30 |
Charles City Cross Roads |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July - August 16 |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-27 |
Retreat from the Peninsula and movement to Centreville |
August 27-31 |
In works at Centreville |
August 30 |
Assist in checking Pope's rout at Bull Run |
September 1 |
Cover retreat to Fairfax Court House |
September-October |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Crampton's Gap, Md. |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 17- October 29 |
At Downsville, Md. |
October 29-
November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va |
December 11-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
January 20-24, 1863 |
Burnside's Second Campaign, "Mud March" |
February |
At White Oak Church |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations at Franklin's Crossing |
May 3 |
Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
June |
Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
June 5-13 |
Franklin's Crossing, Deep Run |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Captain William H. McCartney. It brought 145 men to the field serving six 12-pounder Napoleons. Held in reserve with the as part of 6th Corps' Artillery Brigade, it suffered no casualties. |
July 5-25 |
Moved to Boonsboro, Williamsport, Berlin and Warrenton, Va. |
Jul7 26 -
September 15 |
Camp at Warrenton |
September 15 - October 5
|
At Stone House Mountain |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Rappahannock Station |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
Decmber -
May, 1864 |
Camp at Brandy Station |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania C. H. |
May 12 |
"Bloody Angle" |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
Line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 17-July 9 |
Before Petersburg |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 9-12 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
July 12 |
Repulse of Early's attack on Washington |
August-October |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign; attached to the Army of the Shenandoah |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 2-12 |
Moved to Boston |
October 19, 1864 |
Mustered out |
