United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts > 7th Massachusetts Battery
The 7th Massachusetts Battery lost 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 36 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| May 21 | The 7th Massachusetts Battery was organized and mustered in at Lowell as Richardson’s Light Guard, an Independent Infantry Company |
| May 22 | Left Massachusetts for Fortress Monroe, Virginia, attached to Major General Butler’s Department of Virginia. Assigned garrison duty as infantry. |
| December 25 | Detached on Light Artillery duty and duty at Fort Monroe. |
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1862
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| March 17 | Designated 7th Massachusetts Battery and attached to Department of Virginia |
| May 10 | Occupation of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. |
| May 13 | Duty at Fort Monroe |
| June 19 | At Newport News, Department of Virginia |
| July 25 | Moved to Yorktown, Virginia, and duty there |
| September 29- October 2 |
Moved to Suffolk, attached to Artillery, Division at Suffolk, 7th Corps, Department of Virginia |
| December 1-3 | Expedition from Suffolk |
| December 2 |
Action on the Blackwater, near Franklin |
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1863
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| January 30 |
Action at Deserted House, Va. |
| March 17 |
Action at Franklin on the Blackwater |
| April 11-May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk |
| April 12 and 14 |
Actions at Blackwater |
| April 15 | Somerton Road |
| May 3 | Providence Church Road |
| May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk raised |
| May 13-17 | Expedition to Carrsville |
| May 15-16 | Holland House |
| May 18 | At Portsmouth |
| June 24-July 7 |
Dix’s Peninsula CampaignAttached to Artillery, 1st Division, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
| July 1-7 | Expedition from White House to South Anna River |
| July 4 |
South Anna Bridge |
| July 5-14 | March to Fort Monroe |
| July 15 | To Portsmouth |
| July 20-22 | Moved to Washington, D.C. Attached to Camp Barry, 22nd Corps, Department of Washington |
| July 23 | Duty at Camp Marshall |
| August 18-21 | Moved to Alexandria, then to New York |
| August 22 | Duty in New York during draft troubles |
| September 11 | Moved to Washington, D.C and duty at Camp Barry |
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1864
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| January 24 | Moved to Baltimore, Maryland. |
| January 24 | Sailed on Steamer Arago to New Orleans. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 19th Corps, Department of the Gulf |
| February 5 | At Apollo Stables |
| March 19-31 | Moved to Algiers, then to Alexandria, Louisiana. |
| April 1-May 22 |
Red River Campaign |
| April 29 – May 11 | Section stationed at Pineville |
| May 13-20 | Retreat to Morganza |
| May 16 |
Battle of Mansura |
| July 13 | At Morganza |
| May 30-June 6 | Expedition to Atchafalaya River |
| July 13-23 | Moved to White River, Arkansas and then to St. Charles |
| August 6-13 | Moved to Morganza |
| September 3-11 | Expedition to White River and St. Charles and duty there |
| October 23-24 | Moved to Duvall’s Bluff |
| November | Attached to Reserve Artillery. Reserve Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi |
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1865
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| January 10-15 | Moved to Kennersville, Louisiana. |
| February 9-11 | To Dauphin Island, Ala.; attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 13th Corps, Military Division West Mississippi |
| March 17- April 12 |
Campaign against Mobile |
| March 26-April 9 | Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely |
| April 9 |
Storming of Fort Blakely |
| April 20-27 | Moved from Mobile to Selma, Alabama. |
| April 27-30 | To Montgomery; attached to Artillery, 1st Division, United States Colored Troops, Military Division of West Mississippi |
| May 9-16 | Moved to Mobile and duty there |
| June 30-July 3 | Moved to Galveston, Texas; attached to Dept. of Texas |
| July 9 | To Houston and duty there |
| October 1- November 3 |
Moved to Boston, Massachusetts, via Galveston, Texas, New Orleans, Port Royal, South Carolina and New York |
| November 10 | The 7th Massachusetts Battery mustered out |