United States Regiments & Batteries > New Hampshire
Battery A of the 1st New Hampshire Artillery lost 6 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 6 enlisted men to disease. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
1861
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Organized at Manchester | |
September 21 | Mustered in |
November 1 | Left State for Washington, D.C. Duty at Munson’s Hill, Defenses of Washington, D.C., attached to McDowell’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862
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March | Attached to 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 10-15 | Advance on Manassas, Va. |
March 16-April 9 | Camp at Upton’s Hill. |
April 4 | Attached to King’s Division, Department of the Rappahannock |
April 9-18 | Advance on Falmouth, Va. |
April 18 | Occupation of Fredericksburg |
May 25-29 | McDowell’s advance on Richmond |
June 1-21 | Operations against Jackson. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia |
July | Duty at Falmouth |
July 28 | At Fredericksburg |
August 5-8 | Expedition to Fredericks Hall and Spotsylvania Court House |
August 5-6 | Thornburg Mills |
August 16- September 2 |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21-23 | Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 22 | Rappahannock Station |
August 26 | Sulphur Springs |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
September-October | Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
October 30- November 19 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
November 2-3 | Union |
December 11-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863
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January 20-24 | “Mud March” |
February-April | At Belle Plains |
April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
May | Attached to 3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
April 29-May 2 | Operations at Pollock’s Mill Creek |
April 29-30 | Fitzhugh’s Crossing |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
July 2-4 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery was commanded by Captain Frederick M. Edgell. It brought 111 men to the field serving 4 Ordnance Rifles and lost three men wounded From the monument: On this location Edgell’s 1st New Hampshire Battery, Light Artillery, fired three hundred and fifty-three rounds of ammunition July 2nd and 3rd, 1863. |
July 12-18 | Funkstown, Md. |
October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign. Attached to Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 | Kelly’s Ford |
November 8 | Brandy Station |
November 26-December 2 | Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 | Payne’s Farm |
December | At Brandy Station |
1864
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March | Attached to Artillery Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan |
May 3-June 12 | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the WildernessCommanded by Captain Frederick M. Edgell |
May 8-21 |
Spotsylvania Court House |
May 10 | Po River |
May 12 | Assault on the Salient, “Bloody Angle” |
May 23-26 | North Anna River |
May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June 16-19 | First Assault on Petersburg; Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 22-23 | Jerusalem Plank Road |
July 27-28 | Deep Bottom |
July 30 | Mine Explosion, Petersburg (Reserve) |
August 13-20 | Demonstration north of the James |
August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
August 20-30 | Duty in the trenches before Petersburg |
September 1-7 | At Fort Hill |
September 7 | At Battery 18 |
September 28 | Non-Veterans mustered out |
October 22 | Duty in the trenches before Petersburg |
November 5 | Battery attached to 1st New Hampshire Heavy Artillery as Company M but remained detached as a Light Battery in the field. |
1865
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March 28 | Appomattox Campaign |
March 30-31 |
White Oak Road |
April 2 | Sutherland Station and fall of Petersburg |
April 6 | Sailor’s Creek |
April 7 |
Farmville and High Bridge |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
May 1-12 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 | Grand Review |
June 9 | Mustered out |