Siege of Yorktown

Seven days before Richmond

Mechanicsville

Gaines’ Mill

Turkey Bridge

Malvern Hill

Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia

Battle of Groveton

Second Battle of Bull Run

Captain John R. Smead was killed, and Lieutenant William E. Van Reed took command of the battery.

Maryland Campaign

Attached to Artillery, 2nd Division, 5th Army Corps

Battle of Antietam

The battery was commanded by Lieutenant William E. Van Reed. It was armed with four 12-pounder Napoleons.

From the war Department marker on the Antietam battlefield:

Battery K, 5th U.S. Artillery, crossed the Antietam by the Middle Bridge and about 2 P.M., September 17, relieved Battery M, 2d U.S. Artillery, taking position on the ridge immediately north of this point. After the expenditure of 400 rounds of ammunition at 5 P.M., the Battery was relieved in turn, by Battery M. 2d U.S. Artillery, soon after which it recrossed the Antietam.

Shepherdstown Ford

Marched at 10 a.m.; passed through Sharpsburg about 12 m. One man was wounded (afterward died), and 2 horses had their legs broken by a shot from the enemy.

Shepherdstown

The battery went into position near the Potomac and fired about 50 rounds at the enemy

Battle of Fredericksburg

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of Chancellorsville

Battle of Gettysburg

Commanded by Lieutenant David H. Kinzie, the battery brought four 12 Poundersto the field.

From the monument at Gettysburg:

July 1 Marched to within a mile and a half of Gettysburg

July 2 At Daylight took position to command a gap between the First and Twelfth Corps. At 5 p.m. one section was placed on the summit of Culp’s Hill and assisted in silencing Confederate Batteries on Benner’s Hill. At 6 p.m. rejoined the battery at the foot of Power’s Hill

July 3 At 1 p.m. posted with Battery F 4th U.S. Artillery on the south side of Baltimore Pike opposite the centre of the line of the Twelfth Corps. At 4:30 a.m. opened fire on the Confederates in possession of the line vacated by the Twelfth Corps the preceding night. Firing continued at intervals until after 10 a.m. when the Confederates were driven out. Remained in the same position exposed to the severe shelling which came over Cemetery Hill in the afternoon.

Casualties: wounded 5 men

Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign

Atlanta Campaign

Attached to Artillery Brigade, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland

Siege of Atlanta

Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge

Garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tenn.

Dept. of the Cumberland to August 1865