Lunenburg (Virginia) Artillery

Confederate Regiments & Batteries * Virginia

1862
January 25 Organized at Lunenburg for one year’s service under the command of Captain Samuel W. Hawthorne, a 23 year old doctor, and 1st Lieutenant Cornelius Tactius Allen. The battery served as Company F, 2nd Virginia Artillery Regiment.
June 5 Reorganized as an independent Company.
September-December Assigned to Chaffin’s Bluff, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.
September Captain Hawthorne resigned, having never served. He had been petitioned to stay at home and practice medicine. Lieutenant Allen was promoted to captain.
December-April Assigned to Chaffin’s Bluff, Elzey’s Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.
1863
April Assigned to Chaffin’s Bluff, Department of Richmond.
1864
February The battery’s strength was reported as 1 captain, 3 lieutenants, 139 enlisted men and 5 servants.
May Assigned to Chaffin’s Bluff, Artillery Defenses, Department of Richmond.
June
Siege of Petersburg
September 29
Fort Harrison and Chaffin’s Bluff

Captain Allen was wounded in the hand, losing a finger.
September 29-30
Fort Gilmer
1865
February-March Assigned to Chaffin’s Bluff, Crutchfield’s Artillery Brigade, Department of Richmond.
March-April Assigned to Chaffin’s Bluff, Crutchfield’s Artillery Brigade, G.W.C. Lee’s Division, Department of Richmond.
April 6
Battle of Sayler’s Creek

Captain Allen was wounded and captured. Many other men of the battery were also captured here and at Farmville and Burkeville.
April Assigned to Crutchfield’s Artillery Brigade, G.W.C. Lee’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia
April 9
Appomattox Court House

The battery surrendered 17 men.