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June |
Attached to Wilcox's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeast Virginia |
July 16-21 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 21 |
Battle of Bull Run |
August |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Kearney's Brigade, Division of the Potomac |
October |
Attached to Artillery, Franklin's Division, Army of the Potomac |
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March |
Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va. |
April 9-19 |
Advance to Falmouth, Va. |
April |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula. |
May to August |
Peninsula Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 7 |
West Point |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 30 |
Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing |
August 16-24 |
Moved to Alexandria |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign |
September 14 |
Crampton's Pass, South Mountain, Md. |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Commanded by Captain Edward B. Williston, the battery lost 2 men killed.
From the battlefield marker on Smoketown Road at Antietam :
"Battery D, 2d U.S. Artillery, moved from its bivouac near Crampton's Pass on the morning of the 17th and went into position south of the Smoketown Road, its center 55 yards from this point, its right gun about 12 yards. It opened fire at the Dunkard Church and the woods surrounding it to drive there from the Confederate Sharpshooters. It was relieved by Battery A, Maryland Light Artillery, Captain John W. Wolcott, and at 4 P.M., moved southwest to the high ground north of the Sunken Lane to cover the movement of the 7th Maine Infantry against the Confederates around the Piper buildings." |
October 30-November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
December-April |
At Falmouth |
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April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 2 |
Operations at Franklin's Crossing |
May 3 |
Battle of Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg |
May 3-4 |
Salem Heights |
May |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 6th Army Corps |
July 2-4 |
Battle of Gettysburg
Commanded by Lieut. Edward B. Wiliston, the battery brought four light 12 pounders to the field but remained on Taneytown Road and was not engaged. |
July |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
September 13 |
Culpeper Court House |
September 14-16 |
Raccoon Ford |
September 21-23 |
Reconnaissance across the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 10 |
Raccoon Ford and Morton's Ford |
October 11 |
Morton's Ford, Stevensburg, and near Kelly's Ford |
October 11-12 |
Brandy Station or Fleetwood |
October 15 |
Oak Hill |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
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May 4-June 12 |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Wilderness |
May 7-8 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 9-24 |
Sheridan's Raid to the James River |
May 11 |
Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28 |
Haw's Shop |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-7 |
Cold Harbor |
June 7-24 |
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid |
June 11-12 |
Trevillian Station |
June 21 |
Black Creek or Tunstall Station and White Horse or St. Peter's Church |
June 29-August 2 |
Siege of Petersburg |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 28 |
Malvern Hill |
August 7-November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Horse Artillery, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
August 11 |
Tell Gate, near White Post, and near Newtown |
August 25 |
Near Kearneysville |
August 28 |
Leetown and Smithfield, W. Va. |
August 29 |
Smithfield Crossing, Opequan |
September 15 |
Sevier's Ford', Opequan |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan |
September 21 |
Fisher's Hill |
September 22 |
Milford |
October 8-9 |
Tom's Brook |
October-December |
Duty at Winchester and in the Shenandoah Valley |
December |
Duty at Pleasant Valley, Md. attached to Reserve Horse Artillery, Army of the Shenandoah |
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April |
At Washington, D.C. attached to Horse Artillery, Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps until October |
