United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 3rd Massachusetts Battery (Battery C, Massachusetts Light Artillery) lost 1 officer and 18 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 11 enlisted men to disease. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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1861
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| December 10 | Organized at Lynnfield and Reedville and mustered in |
| December 25-27 | Moved to Washington, D.C. Attached to Porter’s Division, Army of the Potomac at Capital Hill, Defenses of Washington, D.C |
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1862
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| February 15 | At Hall’s Hill |
| March 18-24 | Moved to Alexandria and Fortress Monroe, Va. and attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| April 5 | Warwick Road |
| April 3-May 4 | Siege of Yorktown |
| May | Assigned to Artillery, 1st Division, 5th Corps, Army Potomac |
| May 27 | Hanover Court House |
| May 27-29 | Operations about Hanover Court House |
| June | Assigned to the 1st Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
| June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
| June 26 |
Battle of Mechanicsville |
| June 27 |
Gaines’ Mill |
| June 30 |
White Oak Swamp and Turkey Bridge |
| July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
| July 2 – August 16 | At Harrison’s Landing |
| August 15-28 | Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Manassas |
| August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) |
| September | Duty in the Defenses of Washington |
| October 8 | At Sharpsburg, Md. |
| October 16-17 | Reconnaissance to Smithfield |
| October 16-17 | Kearneysville and Shephardstown |
| October 30- November 19 |
Movement to Warrenton and Falmouth, Va. |
| December 11-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
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1863
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| January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
| April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
| May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
| May | Assigned to the Artillery Brigade, 5th Corps |
| July 2-4 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery was commanded by Lieutenant Aaron Francis Walcott. It brought 124 men to the field serving six 12-pounder Napoleons and lost six men wounded in fighting along Wheatfield Road near the J. Weickert farmhouse. |
| July 31-August 1 | Kelly’s Ford |
| August 1-3 | Brandy Station |
| August October 8 | At Beverly Ford and Culpeper C. H. |
| October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
| November 7-8 | Advance to the Rappahannock |
| November 7 | Rappahannock Station |
| November 26 – December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
| December 6 | At Rappahannock Station |
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1864
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| May 3-June 12 |
Rapidan Campaign |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8 | Laurel Hill |
| May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 12 |
Assault on the Salient |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
| May 23 | Jericho Mills |
| May 26-28 | Line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
| June 1-12 |
Battle of Cold Harbor |
| June 1-3 | Bethesda Church |
| June 16-19 |
Before Petersburg |
| June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg |
| August 18-21 | Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad |
| October 3 | Non-Veterans mustered out |
| October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| December 7-12 |
Warren’s Raid on Weldon Railroad |
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1865
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| February 5-7 | Dabney’s Mills |
| March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
| April 4 | Moved to City Point and duty there |
| May 3-13 | March to Washington, D.C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June 4-6 | Moved to Readville, Mass. |
| June 12 | The 3rd Massachusetts Battery mustered out |