1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery E

The battery lost 17 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 12 enlisted men to disease, a total of 29. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

 

Timeline of the 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment, Battery E

September 23, 1861

Organized at Providence

October 4

Left State for Washington, D.C. Duty at Camp Sprague attached to Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac

November 5

At Fort Lyon, near Alexandria, Va., Defenses of Washington

March 1862

Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac

April to August

Virginia Peninsula Campaign

April 5-May 4

Siege of Yorktown

April 15

Warwick Road

May 5

Battle of Williamsburg

May 31-June 1

Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines

June 25-June 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 25

Oak Grove, near Seven Pines

June 27

Jordan's Ford

June 29

Peach Orchard and Savage Station

June 30

Brackett's and Charles City Cross Roads and Glendale

July 1

Malvern Hill

July - August

At Harrison's Landing

August 15-26

Movement to Centreville, Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac

August 27

Bristoe Station or Kettle Run

August 29

Groveton

August 30

Battle of Bull Run

September 1

Chantilly

September

Duty in the Defenses of Washington

October 11-November 23

March up the Potomac to Leesburg, then to Falmouth, Va.,

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

January 20-24, 1863

"Mud March"

February-April

At Falmouth

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

Lieutenant John K. Bucklyn was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the battle.

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

July 23

Wapping Heights, Va.

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 7

Kelly's Ford

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

November 27

Payne's Farm

March 1864

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps

May-June, 1864

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battles 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 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 18-22

Before Petersburg

June 22-23

Jerusalem Plank Road

July 9-16

Moved to Baltimore

July 17-19

Back to City Point, Va. attached to Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac

July

Operations against Petersburg and Richmond

December

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps

April 2

Fall of Petersburg; attached to Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac

April 3

Ordered to City Point

June 11, 1865

Mustered out