The Civil War in the East

Battery "B" West Virginia Light Artillery "Keeper's"

1861

October 1

Organized at Ceredo.

November-December

At Romney attached to Reynolds' Cheat Mountain District, W. Va.

1862

January

At Paw Paw Tunnel attached to Landers' Division, Army of the Potomac

March 7-12

Advance on Winchester, Va. Attached to Artillery, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps

March 22-23

Battle of Kernstown-Winchester

April 17

Occupation of Mount Jackson and New Market

May 12-22

March to Fredericksburg. Attached to Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock

May 25-30

To Front Royal

May 30

Front Royal

June

Ordered to Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city and in Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Department

August 27

Action at Faquier. White Sulphur Springs, Va.

1863

January

Duty at Winchester, Va. attached to Milroy's Command, Winchester, Va., 8th Army Corps, Middle Department

February

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 8th Army Corps

May 10

Ordered to Grafton, W. Va. Attached to 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps

June

Moved to Beverly, Buckhannon, Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Weston. Attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia

June 17

Arrived at Grafton

July 1

Moved to New Creek and Phillippi

July 7

To Cumberland, Md.

July 12

To Fairview

August 5-31

Averill's Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties

August 25

Jackson River

August 26-27

Rocky Gap, near White Sulphur Springs

November 1-17

Averill's Raid from Beverly against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

November 5

Mill Point, Pocahontas County

November 6

Engagement at Droop Mountain

December

At Beverly and Martinsburg. Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Army of West Virginia

1864

April

Attached to Artillery, 1st Cavalry, Division of West Virginia

May 26-July 1

Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg

June 5

Piedmont, Mount Crawford

June 6

Buffalo Gap and Occupation of Staunton

June 17

Diamond Hill

June 17-18

Lynchburg

June 21

Catawba Mountains

July 3

Leetown

July 4-7

About Harper's Ferry

July 15-16

Near Hillsborough

July 17-18

Snicker's Ferry

July 19

Ashby's Gap and Betty's Ford

July 23

Ashby's Gap

July 24

Battle of Kernstown, Winchester

July 25

Bunker Hill and Martinsburg

August-December

Duty in District of Harper's Ferry

December 31

Consolidated with Battery "E," West Virginia Light Artillery