Battle of Cedar Mountain

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

Thoroughfare Gap

Battle of Groveton (Brawner’s Farm)

Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas)

Battle of Centreville

Battle of Fredericksburg

“Mud March”

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

Battle of Gettysburg

The battery was commanded by Captain James A. Hall. It brought to the field 127 men serving six Ordnance Rifles, and suffered 18 wounded. The battery fired 979 rounds.

From the monument on Chambersburg Pike at Gettysburg:

July 1

The battery came onto the field with the 1st Division of the 1st Corps in the morning of July 1. They were immediately engaged with a six gun Confederate battery. Confederate infantry was also threatening their flank within a short time. The battery drove them off with double canister. Hall ordered the battery to withdraw by sections when their own supporting infantry began retreating. One piece was left behind when all of its horses were shot down or bayoneted, but Hall was able to return and rescue it during a lull in the fighting. The 2nd Battery withdrew to Cemetery Hill, where the three remaining undamaged guns were put into battery at the current site of its position marker.

July 2

The battery went into action in the afternoon with the start of Longstreet’s attack. It continue to fire until all the guns fell silent with dusk. Another gun was disabled with a broken axle, leaving only two guns still usable. The battery was relieved by  the 1st New Hampshire Battery from the Reserve Artillery. Hall’s men went to the rear and took no further part in the battle.

The battery fired 635 rounds during the battle. Eighteen men were wounded. Four were taken prisoner when they tried to save a disabled gun. All of the casualties were from the first day’s fighting. Twenty-eight horses were killed and six wounded.

1864

Rapidan Campaign

Battle of the Wilderness

Battle of Spottsylvania Court House

North Anna River

Totopotomoy

Cold Harbor

Before Petersburg

Mine Explosion, Petersburg