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 CampaignGuarded 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 |