The battery lost 1 officer and 13 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 15 enlisted men to disease., a total of 29. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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Organized at Providence |
August 18, 1861 |
Mustered in |
August 23 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Duty at Camp Stone and along Upper Potomac attached to Stone's Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
October 21-24 |
Operations on the Potomac attached to Artillery, Stone's (Sedgwick's) Division, Army of the Potomac |
October 21 |
Battle of Ball's Bluff
The battery lost 5 men wounded and 4 missing. |
February 25-26, 1862 |
March to Harper's Ferry, W. Va. |
March 7-10 |
Moved to Charlestown, then to Berryville attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 13-14 |
Advance toward Winchester |
March 22-April 1 |
Return to Harper's Ferry, then moved to Washington. D.C., and Hampton, Va. |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 29 |
Peach Orchard and Savage Station |
June 30 |
Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-31 |
Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Alexandria and Fairfax C. H. |
August 31-September 2 |
Cover retreat of Pope's Army from Bull Run to Washington |
September |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 22 |
Moved to Harper's Ferry |
October 16-17 |
Reconnaissance to Charlestown |
October 30-
November 17 |
Advance up Loudoun Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 11-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
January-April 1863 |
Duty at Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 3 |
Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May 4 |
Banks' Ford |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps |
July 1-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant John K. Bucklyn until he was wounded on July 2. Second Lieutenant Benjamin Freeborn then took command in spite of being slightly wounded himself.
Battery E brought 116 men to the field serving six 12-pounder Napoleons. It lost 3 killed, 26 wounded and 1 missing |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
January-May 1864 |
At Stevensburg, Va. |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
May-June |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania C. H. |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
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 |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
September 30 |
Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Artillery transferred to Battery B |
October 27-28 |
Hatcher's Run |
February 5-7, 1865 |
Dabney's Mills |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
High Bridge and Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May 2-15 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 13, 1865 |
Mustered out |
