Confederate Regiments & BatteriesVirginia


 

1861
May 13 Created in James City from Company G, 32nd Virginia infantry Regiment, for one year’s service under the command of Captain William Robertson Garrett. Designated as Company F, 1st Virginia Artillery Regiment.
October Assigned to Artillery, Department of the Peninsula.
1862
January-April Assigned to McLaws’s Division, Department of the Peninsula.
April-May
Siege of Yorktown

Assigned to McLaws’s Brigade, McLaws’s Division, Magruder’s Command, Department of Northern Virginia.

May 5
Battle of Williamsburg
May 10 Reorganized for the duration of the war under the command of Captain John Archer Coke.
May-June Assigned to McLaws’s Brigade, Magruder’s Division, Department of Northern Virginia.
June Assigned to Brown’s Battalion, Reserve Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia.
June 25-July 1
Seven Days Battles
September 17
Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)

Guarded the southern shore of the Potomac near Williamsport. Ordered to cross the river into Maryland and posted on the high ground east of Sharpsburg along the Boonsboro Pike.

October 4 Disbanded and personnel transferred to other batteries in the 1st Virginia Artillery Regiment