Siege of Yorktown

Battle of Seven Pines or Fair Oaks

Oak Grove, near Fair Oaks

Seven days before Richmond

Battles of Gaines’ Mills

Peach Orchard and Savage Station

White Oak Swamp Bridge and Glendale

Malvern Hill

Battle of Antietam

Ordered forward at the beginning of of the fighting. Private Nicholas House was killed by a ball while going into battery and was buried on the field.

Battle of Fredericksburg

“Mud March”

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

Seargeant Charles Gates and Privates Robert Donahue and Bernard McBride were wounded. Donahue reportedly drowned in the Delaware River during his stay in a hospital in Philadelphia

Battle of Gettysburg

Battery B brought 114 men to the field serving four 10-pounder Parrott Rifles. It was commanded from at the beggining of July 2 by Lieutenant Albert S. Sheldon.

On Juy 2 the battery fought near the Wheatfield before being withdrawn to the line of batteries set up by Lt. Colonel Freeman McGilvery along Plum Run. It lost one man killed and eight wounded, as well as 13 horses killed or disabled.

By late afternoon the fighting shifted to the north and Hancock was desperately looking for men to shore up the center of the Union line on Cemetary Ridge. Captain James McKay Rorty was a Second Corps Ordnance Officer who begged Hancock for a combat command for the battle. He had commanded the 14th New York Battery before its sections had been broken up, one of which was now with Battery B. Hancock assigned him to command of Battery B and ordered him to bring it up to a position just south of the Copse of Trees.

On July 3 the battery was on Cemetery Ridge just south of the Copse of Trees, and directly in the path of Pickett’s Charge. The intense bombardment before the charge disabled three of the four cannon of the battery, blowing one from its carriage. Captain Rorty dropped his sword belt and coat and grabbed a sponge staff to help work the remaining gun. He shouted a desperate plea to Colonel Arthur Devereau of the nearby 19th Massachusetts Infantry for a dozen men to help work his guns, and was rewarded with a score of volunteers. Lieutenant Moses Shackley risked his life to fill a sponge bucket from a nearby spring to keep the gun firing. Captain Rorty was killed by a shell fragment after a direct hit on one of the battery’s caissons. Lieutenant Albert S. Sheldon briefly resumed command.

Lieutenant Sheldon was wounded as a final surge of Confederate Brigadier General James Kemper’s Virginians swept up and over the battery. Sergeant Lewis Darveau shot a Confederate captain who had placed his colors on one of the guns, brained him with a handspike, and was in turn shot down. . Lieutenant Robert E. Rogers then took over the battery.

Captain Rorty, Sergeant Darveau, Privates John Barry, Michael Halloran, Patrick Kelley, Amos Maynard, Charles Radue, Henry Rosegrant, Napoleon Twitchell were killed or mortally wounded and 16 men were wounded.

Bristoe Campaign

Mine Run Campaign.

Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James (Overland Campaign)

Battle of the Wilderness

Laurel Hill

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

Totopotomoy

Cold Harbor

Bethesda Church

Captain Albert Sheldon and Privates James O’Hara and James Wheeler were wounded, Wheeler mortally.

First Assault on Petersburg

Siege of Petersburg begins

Mine Explosion, (Battle of the Crater)

The battery was in reserve

Weldon Railroad

Corporal Daniel Rodgers was mortally wounded and Prinate Alonzo Ketcham was killed. Corporal Rogers died of his wounds on August 30 in Washington.

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run

Appomattox Campaign

White Oak Road

Battle of Five Forks

Breakthrough and Fall of Petersburg

Appomattox Court House

Surrender of Lee and his army.