Battery E lost 2 officers and 12 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 11 enlisted men to disease, a total of 25. It is honored by two monuments at Gettysburg.
September, 1861 |
Organized at Point of Rocks, Md., from a Company formed for the 63rd Pennsylvania Infantry and surplus men of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry. Camp at East Capital Hill, Defenses of Washington attached to W. F. Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac |
November 24 |
Moved to Point of Rocks; attached to Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac for duty there and near Harper's Ferry |
December 19 |
Action at Point of Rocks |
February 28, 1862 |
Occupation of Loudon Heights |
March 1-April 14 |
Operations on line of Manassas Gap Railroad, attached to Geary's Separate Brigade, Banks' 5th Army Corps |
March 1 |
Capture of Lovettsville |
March 7-8 |
March to Wheetland and Leesburg |
March 8 |
Capture of Leesburg |
March 12 |
Advance to Snickersville |
March 14 |
Upperville |
March 15 |
Ashby's Gap |
March 27 |
Middleburg |
March 27-28 |
Operations about Middleburg and White Plains |
April 1 |
At Salem; attached to Geary's Separate Brigade, Dept. of the Shenandoah |
April 2 |
Thoroughfare Gap |
April 14 |
Piedmont; Guarding Railroad at Salem |
May 23 |
Front Royal |
May 24-25 |
Retreat to Manassas, attached to Geary's Separate Brigade, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
June-August |
Guard Railroad and operations in the Valley attached to Artillery, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia |
July 12-17 |
Reconnaissance to Orange and Culpeper Court House |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 16-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21 |
Rappahannock Bridge |
August 23-25 |
Sulphur Springs |
September 2-23 |
Maryland Campaign; attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 19-23 |
Moved to Harper's Ferry |
October-December |
Duty at Sandy Hook |
November 9 |
Reconnaissance to Rippon |
December 2-6 |
Reconnaissance to Winchester |
December 2 |
Berryville |
December 4 |
Winchester |
December 9-17 |
March to Fairfax Station and duty there |
January 20-24, 1863 |
"Mud March" |
February-April |
At Aquia Creek |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville, attached to Artillery Brigade, 12th Army Corps |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded by Captain Charles A. Atwell. It brought six 10-pounder Parrott rifles to the field.
From the monuments: "At 3:30 p.m. July 2nd one gun was placed on Culp's Hill in the position marked by a monument, and was joined by two others at 5 p.m., when the three guns engaged the enemy's batteries on Benner's Hill. These guns were withdrawn when the Infantry was ordered to the left and the Battery went into this position where it remained until the close of the battle."
"Present at Gettysburg 4 officers and 135 men. Wounded 3 men." |
September 24-October 3 |
Movement to Bridgeport, Ala. attached to Army of the Cumberland |
October 28-29 |
Wauhatchie, Tenn. |
November 23-25 |
Battles of Chattanooga |
November 23-24 |
Lookout Mountain |
November 25 |
Mission Ridge |
November 27 |
Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge |
December |
Artillery, 2nd Division, 12th Corps, Army of the Cumberland |
January, 1864 |
Reenlisted |
January and February |
On furlough |
April 12-16 |
Expedition down Tennessee River to Triana attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 20th Army Corps |
May to September |
Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign |
May 8-11 |
Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge |
May 8 |
Dug Gap or Mill Springs |
May 14-15 |
Battle of Resaca |
May 19 |
Near Cassville |
May 25 |
New Hope Church |
May 26-June 5 |
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills |
June 10-July 2 |
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain |
June 11-14 |
Pine Mountain |
June 15 |
Gilgal or Golgotha Church |
June 15-17 |
Lost Mountain |
June 17 |
Muddy Creek |
June 19 |
Noyes Creek |
June 22 |
Kolb's Farm |
June 27 |
Assault on Kenesaw |
July 4 |
Ruff's Station or Smyrna Camp Ground; attached to Artillery Brigade, 20th Army Corps |
July 5-17 |
Chattahoochie River |
July 19-20 |
Peach Tree Creek |
July 22-August 25 |
Siege of Atlanta |
August 26-September 2 |
Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge |
September 2-November 15 |
Occupation of Atlanta |
November 9 |
Near Atlanta |
November 15-December 10 |
March to the sea |
December 10-21 |
Siege of Savannah |
January to April, 1865 |
Campaign of the Carolinas |
March 16 |
Averysboro, N. C. |
March 19-21 |
Battle of Bentonville |
March 24 |
Occupation of Goldsboro |
April 9-13 |
Advance on Raleigh |
April 10 |
Neuse River |
April 14 |
Occupation of Raleigh |
April 26 |
Bennett's' House. Surrender of Johnston and his army. |
April 29-May 20 |
March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond. Va. |
May 24 |
Grand Review |
June 14, 1865 |
Mustered out at Pittsburg |
