United States Regiments & Batteries > Vermont
The 1st Vermont Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment lost 10 officers and 154 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 410 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1862
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| Organized at Brattleboro | |
| September 1 | Mustered in as 11th Vermont Infantry Regiment under Colonel James M. Warner |
| September 7 | Left State for Washington, D.C. and attached to attached to 1st Brigade, Haskins’ Division, Military District of Washington for duty in the Defences of Washington north of the Potomac |
| September 27 | Company A assigned to Fort Lincoln Company B assigned to Forts Massachusetts and Stevens Companies C and D assigned to Fort Saratoga Company E assigned to Fort Totten Company F assigned to Fort Bunker Hill Company G assigned to Fort Lincoln Company H assigned to Fort Slocum Company I assigned to Fort Thayer Company K assigned to Fort Totten |
| November 17 | Company A moved to Fort Totten Companies C and D moved to Fort Massachusetts Company E moved to Fort Slocum Company F moved to Fort Slocum Company G moved to Fort Slocum Company I moved to Fort Massachusetts |
| December 10 | Designation of Regiment changed to 1st Heavy Artillery. Attached to 1st Brigade, Haskins’ Division, Military District of Washington |
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1863
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| February | Attached to 1st Brigade, Haskins’ Division, 22nd Army Corps, Defenses of Washington |
| March | Company A moved to Fort Lincoln Company B moved to Fort Totten Company C moved to Fort Stevens Company D moved to Fort Saratoga Company F moved to Fort Thayer Company H moved to Fort Bunker Hill Company I moved to Fort Bunker Hill |
| July 11 | Company L organized and assigned to Fort Lincoln |
| October 7 | Company M organized and assigned to Fort Lincoln |
| November 2 | Captain Hunsdon of Company B was promoted to major. |
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1864
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| May 12 | Ordered to Join army in the field, operating as infantry |
| May 15 | Moved to Belle Plains, Va., and join 6th Army Corps at Spotsylvania Court House, Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May 15-21 | Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 23-26 | North Anna River |
| May 26-28 | Line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
| June 1-12 | Cold Harbor |
| June 17-July 9 | Before Petersburg |
| June 22-23 | Jerusalem Plank Road |
| July 9-11 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| July 11-12 | Repulse of Early’s attack on Fort Stevens |
| July 15-23 | Snicker’s Gap Expedition |
| August 7-November 28 | Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign; Attached to Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
| August 21-22 | Near Charlestown |
| September 2 | Major Hunsdon was promoted to lieutenant colonel |
| September 13 | Gilbert’s Ford, Opequan |
| September 19 | Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
| September 22 | Fisher’s Hill |
| October 19 | Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October | Duty at Strasburg |
| November 9 | At Kernstown |
| December 9-12 | Moved to Petersburg, Va.for Siege of Petersburg |
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1865
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| March 25 | Fort Fisher, Petersburg |
| March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Campaign |
| April 2 | Assault on and fall of Petersburg. Pursuit of Lee. |
| April | Duty at Burkesville |
| April 23-27 | March to Danville |
| May 19-24 | At Manchester. Colonel Warner was promoted t brigadier general, and Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hunsdon was promoted to colonel. |
| June | At Munson’s Hill, Washington, attached to Middle Department, 8th Corps |
| June 8 | Corps Review |
| June 24 | Old members mustered out. Veterans and Recruits consolidated to a Battalion of four Companies, and duty at Fort Foote, Md., Defenses of Washington |
| August 25 | Mustered out |