United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts > 16th Massachusetts Battery


The 16th Massachusetts Battery lost men 6 to disease during the Civil War.

1864
April 4 Organized at Camp Meigs, Readville, and mustered in
April 17 Left Massachusetts for Washington, D.C. Attached to Camp Barry, 22nd Corps, Department of Washington
May 14 At Fort Thayer
May 22 At Fort Lyon
June Assigned to 2nd Brigade, DeRussy’s Division, 22nd Corps
July Camp Barry, 2nd Corps
July 11-12
At Fort Kearney during Early’s attack on Washington
July 13 At Camp Barry
September 5 Ordered to Albany, N.Y. and duty at Troy Road Barracks
November 16 Moved to Washington and attached to 1st Separate Brigade, 22nd Corps
December 6 To Fairfax Court House, Virginia, and duty there and at Station and Vienna
1865
June 17 Ordered to Massachusetts
July 13 The 16th Massachusetts Battery mustered out