The Battery lost 1 officer and 8 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 23 enlisted men to disease, a total of 32. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, N.J. |
September 3, 1861 |
Mustered in |
October 22 |
Left State for Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Hamilton's Division, Defenses of Washington |
March 1862 |
Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown, Va. |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks (or Seven Pines) |
June 21 |
Action at Fair Oaks Station |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond; attached to Artillery Reserve, 3rd Army Corps |
June 25 |
Battles of Oak Grove, Seven Pines |
June 29 |
Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 |
White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August |
Moved to Washington, D.C. and duty in the Defenses of that city attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps |
November 10-12 |
Operations on Orange and Alexandria Railroad |
November 28-December 11 |
Near Falmouth, Va. |
December 12--15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
January |
At Falmouth attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February 5-7 |
Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded by Captain Adoniram J. Clark. It brought 143 men to the field serving six 10-pounder Parrott Rifles.
From the monument: "Fought here from 2 until 7 O'clock on July 2, 1863, firing 1,300 rounds of ammunition. Losses, killed 1, wounded 16, missing 3." |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va. |
July 12 |
South Mountain, Md. |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights, Manassas Gap, Va. |
August |
Near Warrenton, Va. |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Kelly's Ford |
November 8 |
Brandy Station |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
December |
At and near Stevensburg |
March 1864 |
Attached to 2nd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
May 3-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient ("Bloody Angle") |
May 19 |
Harris Farm (or Fredericksburg Road) |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James River |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains |
August 18 |
Russell's Mills |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
March 25 1865 |
Watkins' House |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-31 |
Hatcher's Run |
April 2 |
Boydton Road, Fall of Petersburg and Sutherland Station |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 6-7 |
Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 16, 1865 |
Mustered out |
