United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
“Keeper’s Battery”
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1861
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| October 1 | Organized at Ceredo. |
| November-December | At Romney attached to Reynolds’ Cheat Mountain District, W. Va. |
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1862
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| January | At Paw Paw Tunnel attached to Landers’ Division, Army of the Potomac |
| March 7-12 | Advance on Winchester, Va. Attached to Artillery, Shields’ 2nd Division, Banks’ 5th Army Corps |
| March 22-23 |
Battle of Kernstown |
| April 4 | Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, Department of the Shenandoah |
| April 17 | Occupation of Mount Jackson and New Market |
| May 12-22 | March to Fredericksburg. Attached to Shields’ Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
| May 25-30 | To Front Royal |
| May 30 |
Battle of Front Royal |
| June | Ordered to Camp Barry, Washington, D.C., and duty in the Defenses of that city and in Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Department |
| August 27 | Action at Faquier. White Sulphur Springs, Va. |
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1863
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| January | Duty at Winchester, Va. attached to Milroy’s Command, Winchester, Va., 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 8th Army Corps |
| May 10 | Ordered to Grafton, W. Va. Attached to 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps |
| June | Moved to Beverly, Buckhannon, Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Weston. Attached to Averill’s 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia |
| June 17 | Arrived at Grafton |
| July 1 | Moved to New Creek and Phillippi |
| July 7 | To Cumberland, Md. |
| July 12 | To Fairview |
| August 5-31 | Averill’s Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties |
| August 25 | Jackson River |
| August 26-27 | Rocky Gap, near White Sulphur Springs |
| November 1-17 | Averill’s Raid from Beverly against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
| November 5 | Mill Point, Pocahontas County |
| November 6 |
Engagement at Droop Mountain |
| December | At Beverly and Martinsburg. Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Army of West Virginia |
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1864
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| April | Attached to Artillery, 1st Cavalry, Division of West Virginia |
| May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Raid to Lynchburg |
| June 5 |
Piedmont, Mount Crawford |
| June 6 | Buffalo Gap and Occupation of Staunton |
| June 17 | Diamond Hill |
| June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
| June 21 | Catawba Mountains |
| July 3 | Leetown |
| July 4-7 | About Harper’s Ferry |
| July 15-16 | Near Hillsborough |
| July 17-18 | Snicker’s Ferry |
| July 19 | Ashby’s Gap and Betty’s Ford |
| July 23 | Ashby’s Gap |
| July 24 |
Second Battle of Kernstown |
| July 25 | Bunker Hill and Martinsburg |
| August-December | Duty in District of Harper’s Ferry |
| December 31 | Consolidated with Battery “E,” West Virginia Light Artillery |