United States Regiments & Batteries > Vermont > 3rd Vermont Battery


The 3rd Vermont Battery enrolled 3 officers and 148 enlisted men and gained 105 men from recruits and transfers during the American Civil War. It lost 20 men to disease and one to an accident. Three men were wounded.

1864
  Organized at Burlington
January 1 Mustered in at Burlington under the command of Captain Romeo H. Start, First Lieutenant Roswell C. Vaughan, and Second Lieutenant Walter A. Phillips.
January 15-18 Moved to Washington, D.C. and duty at Camp Barry, the Artillery Camp of Instruction.
February 20 Armed and equipped as a mounted light artillery battery.
April 5 Attached to Artillery, 4th Division, 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac
May-June

Rapidan Campaign

Guarded trains of the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness and to Petersburg, Va.

June 16

Siege of Petersburg

July Attached to Reserve Artillery, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac
June 20 –
August 19
Garrisoned Fort Morton
July 30

Mine Explosion (Battle of the Crater)

Hotly engaged from 3:50 a.m. until 10:30 a.m., firing 395 shot and shell.

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

August 27-30 At Aiken House
September Attached to Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac
September 1 At Fort Sedgwick. Known as “Fort Hell” because the lines were closest together at this point and the fire was “incessant and dangerous.”
September 6 At Avery House
September 19 At Fort Meikel
October 3 At Battery 27
October 5 Moved to Poplar Springs Church
October 5-12 Built Fort Urmston
October 12-25 At Battery 16
October 25 Ordered to City Point and duty in the Defenses there
1865
January 15 Joined 6th Corps at Weldon Railroad and stationed at Fort Fisher
March 25

Fort Fisher

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April Moved to City Point and duty there
May 3-18 March to Washington, D.C.
May 23 Grand Review
June 15 The 3rd Vermont Battery mustered out