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January |
At Washington, D.C. |
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Expedition to relief of Fort Pickens, Fla., and return to Washington. |
June to August |
Attached to Blenker's Brigade, Miles' Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run |
August |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Heintzelman's Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
October |
Attached to Blenker's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, then Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
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March |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula. |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 4 |
Near Williamsburg |
May |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 23-24 |
Mechanicsville |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 26 |
Mechanicsville |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July |
At Harrison's Landing |
July 31-August 1 |
Cog's Point |
August 16-24 |
Moved to Fortress Monroe, then to Alexandria |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac |
September 11-12 |
Sugar Loaf Mountain |
September 15 |
Boonsborough |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 19 |
Shepherdstown Ford |
November 2-3 |
Upperville and Bloomfield |
November 3-4 |
Snicker's Gap |
November 4 |
Markham Station |
November 10 |
Amissville |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
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February 5-7 |
Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church |
February |
Attached to Artillery Reserve, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
April 29-May 8 |
Stoneman's Raid |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The battery was commanded by Lieutenant John H. Calef and brought six 3-inch Ordnance Rifles to the field and losing 12 men wounded and 13 horses killed.
From the monument on Chambersburg Road:
"June 30 Arrived in the evening from Emmitsburg and took position on the Chambersburg Pike.
July 1 Advanced with the Cavalry. Went into position with right section on right of the road left section on the left and center section with Col. Wm. Gamble's Brigade on the right of Fairfield Road. The First Union gun of the battle was fired from right section and the positions held under a severe fire until the First Corps arrived about 10 a.m. The Battery was then relieved by Capt. J.A. Hall's 2nd Maine Battery and after being supplied with ammunition returned to a line in front of Cemetery Ridge and towards night moved to the left about a mile and bivouacked for the night near the Third Corps.
July 2 A.M. marched with the First Brigade of Major General John Buford's Division to Taneytown en route to Westminster "
From the monument on Reynolds Avenue:
"July 1 Advanced with the First Division Cavalry Corps. The Right and Left Sections on the Chambersburg Pike. The Centre Section under Sergt. Chas. Pergel posted here with the First Brigade First Division Cavalry Corps and assisted in repulsing an attack of the Confederate infantry.
This section having been withdrawn joined the Battery in the rear and again advanced with Left Section and Received Battery B First Maine Artillery on Chambersburg Pike in the afternoon but was soon compelled by a front and enfilading fire to retire. Rejoined the Battery in position with the cavalry on the left in front of Cemetery Ridge and remained during the night." |
July 4 |
Emmettsburg, Md. |
July 6 |
Williamsport and Hagerstown |
July 8 |
Boonsborough |
July 10 |
Old Antietam Forge |
July 14 |
Falling Waters |
July 21-22 |
Chester Gap |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
September 13 |
Culpeper Court House |
September 14-16 |
Raccoon Ford |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 17-18 |
Groveton |
October 19 |
Gainesville and Buckland Mills |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
New Hope Church |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
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February 6-7 |
Barnett's Ford |
May 4-June 12 |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Wilderness |
May 8-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
June 1-7 |
Cold Harbor |
June 2 |
Gaines' Mill, Salem Church and Haw's Shop |
June 7-24 |
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid |
June 11-12 |
Trevillian Station |
June 21 |
Black Creek or Tunstall Station and White House or St. Peter's Church |
June 24 |
St. Mary's Church |
June 29 |
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
July 12 |
Lee's Mills |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James River |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 29 |
Malvern Hill |
July 30 |
Lee's Mills |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James |
August 14 |
Gravel Hill |
August 16 |
Deep Run |
August 16-18 |
Strawberry Plains |
August 23 |
Dinwiddie Road, near Ream's Station |
August 23-25 |
Ream's Station |
September 29-October 2 |
Poplar Grove Church |
September 30-October 1 |
Arthur's Swamp |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road |
November 7 |
Reconnaissance toward Stony Creek |
December 1 |
Stony Creek Station |
December 7-12 |
Warren's Expedition to Weldon Railroad |
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February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie Court House |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 3 |
Namozine Church |
April 5 |
Payne's Cross Roads, Amelia Springs |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 8 |
Appomattox Station |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 23-29 |
Expedition to Danville |
May |
Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to Dept. of Washington, 22nd Corps |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
