The Civil War in the East

Battery C, West Virginia Light Artillery

 

The battery is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to Battery C, West Virginia Light Artillery at Gettysburg

1862

January 25 -
March 30

Organized at Wheeling, W. Va. from Company B of the 18th Ohio Infantry Regiment

March-May

Duty at Franklin, Va. serving unattached, Railroad District, Dept. of the Mountains

May

Attached to 1st Brigade, Blenker's Division, Dept. of the Mountains

May 25-June 14

Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley

June 1

Mount Carmel Road, near Strasburg attached to Reserve Artillery, 1st Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia

June 2

Strasburg

June 3

Tom's Brook

June 6

Mount Jackson

June 8

Battle of Cross Keys

June 9

Port Republic

June-August

At Sperryville

August 8-September 2

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia

August 9

Battle of Cedar Mountain (Reserve)

August 20-21

Rappahannock Station

August 22

Freeman's Ford

August 24

Sulphur Springs

August 24-25

Waterloo Bridge

August 27

Plains of Manassas

August 28

Gainesville

August 29

Groveton

August 30

Bull Run

September

Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 16-19

Reconnaissance to Leesburg and skirmish

December 10-16

March to Fredericksburg, Va.

December 27-29

Raid on Dumfries and Fairfax Station

1863

January-April

At Falmouth, Va.

January 20-24

"Mud March"

March

Attached to Reserve Artillery, 11th Army Corps

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

May 1-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

May

Attached to 3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

June 12-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The battery was commanded by Captain Wallace Hill. It brought 124 men to the field serving four 10-pounder Parrott Rifles, and lost of two men killed and two wounded.

August

Attached to 4th Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

October 9-22

Bristoe Campaign, attached to 2nd Brigade, Artillery Reserve

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock attached to 1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

November 26-December 2

Mine Run Campaign

1864

March

Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city south of the Potomac attached to Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps

May

Attached to 2nd Brigade, De Russy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

July 11-12

Repulse of Early's attack on Washington attached to 4th Brigade, De Russy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

October

Attached to 3rd Brigade, De Russy's Division. 22nd Army Corps

December

Attache to 1st Brigade, De Russy's Division, 22nd Army Corps

1865

June 28

Mustered out