The Civil War in the East

5th United States Artillery, Battery C

 

1861

September

Organized in Washington. Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D. C. attached to Artillery, McCall's Division, Army of the Potomac.

1862

March

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

April

Attached to Dept. of the Rappahannock

April 9-19

Advance on Falmouth, Va.

May 25-28

McDowell's advance on Richmond

June

Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula and attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac

June 25-July 1

Seven days before Richmond

June 26

Mechanicsville

June 27

Gaines' Mill

June 30

Glendale

July 1

Malvern Hill

July-August

At Harrison's Landing

August 16-28

Movement to Fort Monroe, then to Centreville, Va.

August 28-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 3rd Corps, Army Virginia

August 29

Battle of Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September 6-22

Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army Potomac

September 14

South Mountain, Md.

September 16-17

Antietam, Md.

Commanded by Captain Dunbar Ransom, Lieutenants Weir and Gansevoort. The battery lost 2 men killed and 13 wounded.

October 30-November 19

Movement to Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

January 20-24

"Mud March"

1863

February

At Falmouth. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29-May 2

Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek

April 29-30

Fitzhugh's Crossing

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

May

Attached to 1st Regular Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The battery was commanded by Lieutenant Gulian V. Weir. It brought six 12 Pounders to the field.

 

From the monument:

July 2 Arrived at Gettysburg from near Taneytown and in the afternoon was ordered to the front and by direction of Major General W.S. Hancock took position 500 yards further to the front and by order of Brig. General John Gibbon opened fire on the Confederates on the left front. The Confederates in front advanced to within a few yards no infantry opposing. Three of the guns were captured by the Confederates and drawn off to the Emmitsburg Road but were recaptured by the 13th Vermont and another regiment.

July 3 In the rear of the line until Longstreet's Assault was made when the Battery was moved up to Brig. General A.S. Webb's line and opened with canister at short range on the advancing Confederates. At 6:30 p.m. returned to the Artillery Reserve.


Casualties: killed 2 men wounded 2 officers and 12 men.

July 3-15

Draft riots in New York

July

At Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., D. C., 22nd Army Corps

November

Consolidated with Battery I and attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

1864

May 4-June 12

Rapidan Campaign

May 5-7

Battle of the Wilderness

May 8-21

Spotsylvania Court House

May 10

Po River

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 22-26

North Anna River

May 26-29

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12

Cold Harbor

June 16-18

Assaults on Petersburg

June 16-April 2

Siege of Petersburg

June 22

Jerusalem Plank Road

July 27-29

Deep Bottom

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

March 25

Fort Stedman

March

Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army Potomac

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Assault on and fall of Petersburg

May

Moved to Washington, D.C.

May 23

Grand Review

June

Duty at Washington, D.C.