United States Regiments & Batteries * U.S. Regulars
Battery E is referenced on a War Department marker at Antietam and honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
1861
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January | Stationed at Fort Sumter, S. C. |
April 12-13 |
Defense of Fort Sumter |
April 13 | Evacuation of Fort Sumter |
April 19 | Reached Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Harbor |
June 3 | Moved to Chambersburg, Pa. and attached to General Patterson’s Army, Department of Pennsylvania |
August 26 | Ordered to Washington, D.C. |
August 28 | Arrived Washington, D.C., having marched to Hagerstown and moved by rail via Harrisburg and Baltimore. Duty at Arsenal and at Camp Duncan, Defenses of Washington. |
October | Attached to Hooker’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
1862
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February | Attached to Battery G, 1st Artillery |
March | Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac. Moved to the Virginia Peninsula. |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Artillery Reserve, 5th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines |
June 26-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 29 |
Savage Station and Peach Orchard |
June 30 | White Oak Swamp and Glendale |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August | At Harrison’s Landing |
August 16-28 | Moved to Fortress Monroe, then to Centerville |
August 28-September 2 | Pope’s Virginia Campaign |
August 29 |
Battle of Groveton |
August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
September 6-22 | Maryland Campaign. Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps |
September 16-17 |
Battle of AntietamBattery E was commanded by Lieutenant Alanson M. Randall. It was armed with four 12-pounder Napoleons. From the marker on the Antietam battlefield: Early in the afternoon of the 17th, Battery E, 1st U.S. Artillery, crossed the Antietam by the Middle Bridge and relieved Robertson’s Battery (B and L, 2d U.S. Artillery) which was in position on a knoll about 80 yards south of this point. It opened a fire of spherical case on the flank of one of the Confederate Batteries on Cemetery Hill compelling it, apparently, to retire beyond the range of its guns. As the position was an unfavorable one for the use of Artillery and subjected to an annoying fire of the Confederate skirmishers, the Battery was withdrawn and recrossed the Antietam. |
September 19-20 | Shepherdstown Ford |
October | At Sharpsburg. Attached to Artillery, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps |
October 29-November 19 | Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 11-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
December | At Falmouth, Va. |
1863
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April 27-May 6 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
May | Attached to 2nd Regular Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
June | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac |
June 11-July 24 |
Gettysburg Campaign |
June 17 | Aldie |
June 19 | Middleburg |
June 21 | Upperville |
June 21 | Ashby’s Gap |
July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe battery brought 84 men to the field under Captain Alanson M. Randol. It brought four 12-pounders to the field and suffered no casualties. From the monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield: July 1&2 With First Brigade Second Cavalry Division. Not engaged. July 3 One section under Lieut. James Chester was ordered to Second Brigade Third Cavalry Division and took position west of the Low Dutch Road and with Brig. General Custer’s Second Brigade Third Division Cavalry Corps was hotly engaged in repelling the attack of Major General Stuart’s Confederate Cavalry Division. The one section under Lieut. Ernest L. Kinney remained near the Hanover Road. |
July 14 | Near Harper’s Ferry |
July 16 | Shepherdstown |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
1864
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February 28-March 1 | Custer’s Raid into Albemarle County |
February 29 | Near Charlottesville |
March 1 | Stannardsville |
May 4-June 8 |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
May 21 | Milford Station |
May 23 | Chesterfield |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
May 31 | Mechump’s Creek |
June 1-5 |
Cold Harbor |
June 3 | Sharp’s Farm |
June 18 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
June | Garrison duty at Forts Willard and Strong, Defenses of Washington, D.C. until end of war. Assigned to 3rd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
July | Assigned to 1st Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Army Corps |
December 23 | Captain Randol was appointed colonel of the 2nd New York Cavalry. |