Rhode Island's Battery C lost 19 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 8 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
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Organized at Providence |
August 25 |
Mustered in |
August 31 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
September |
Duty at Camp Sprague, Defenses of Washington attached to Porter's Division, Army of the Potomac |
October |
At Hall's and Munson's Hills |
1862 |
March |
Assigned to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10-16 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
March 16-23 |
Moved to Alexandria, then to Fortress Monroe, Va. |
April 4 |
Action at Howard's Bridge |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May |
Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
May 27 |
Hanover C. H. |
May 27-29 |
Operations about Hanover C. H. |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 26 |
Battle of Mechanicsville |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill |
June 30 |
Turkey Bridge and Malvern Cliff |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July |
At Harrison's Landing |
July 21 |
Captain Weeden resigned. Lieutenant Richard Waterman took command of the battery |
July 25 |
Lieutenant Richard Waterman promoted to captain. |
August 16-28 |
Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Centreville |
August 30 |
Battle of Bull Run |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam, Md.
Captain Waterman commanded the battery, which had 6 Napoleons. |
September 19 |
Shepherdstown |
September |
At Sharpsburg |
October 30- November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
1863 |
January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
Fenruary |
At Falmouth, Va. |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May |
Assigned to 3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 5-13 |
Operations at Franklin's Crossing |
June |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. |
July-August |
At Warrenton, Va. |
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 |
December |
At Brandy Station |
1864 |
May-June |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-12 |
Spotsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spotsylvania C. H. |
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 |
June 16-July 9 |
Siege of Petersburg |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
June 9-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
July 11-12 |
Repulse of Early's attack on Washington |
August to November |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October |
Duty at Winchester and Kernstown |
November |
At Camp Barry, 22nd Corps, Dept. Washington |
December 23 |
Consolidated with Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery |
